Clarion 1981-03-20 Vol 56 No 20

'LEARNING RESOURCE CENTEK
BETHEL COLLEGE
3900 Bethel Drive
St Paul, Minnesota 55112
Thirty-five cents wilt still buy a whole Bethel bagel, provided lost" dishes and silverware
continue to come in (photo by Doug Barkey).
e Clarion. Vol. 56, No. 20
Bethel College, St. Paul, MN
March 20, 1981
Housing lottery out; priority in
by Shari Goddard
Bethel students and em-ployees
returned enough
missing food service dish-es,
glasses and silverware
to hold of the scheduled
March 16 price hike. "Be-cause
students seemed 'to
be making an effort to
return things...we'll give
them credit and hope they
continue," said Wayne
Erickson, director of food
service.
When over $1000 in sil-verare,
dishes and glasses
disappeared this year,
Erickson announced a ten
per cent price increase if
the items were not return-ed
by March 13. "I felt
something had to be done,"
he said. Erickson added
that some loss is normal
each year, but "this year
more stuff has disap-peared.
It really got to be
frustrating."
A return table was set
up outside the food-card
coordinator's office for
those who found "lost"
items in their rooms or
offices. When the return
effort started, food ser-vice
had three dozen
glasses, one rack. As of
last Firday, students and
by Patty Sutton
Major changes have
been made in the place-ment
system, the lease and
the blocking off of certain
areas of housing for spe-cial
students. "By offering
as much choice of room-mates
and rooms as pos-sible,"
said Rod Long, di-rector
of housing, "the
community that has deve-loped
among students in
the residences can be pre-served
and built upon
from year to year."
Long said that the great-er
flexibility of choice will
help students to take great-er
pride in the physical
facilities and thus lower
others had returned ap-proximately
seven racks.
Other items were also re-turned.
According to Erickson,
some of the items were
taken carelessly—brought
to rooms and forgotten.
People took other items
deliberately. The price
raise was to "make a point
that we couldn't put up
with it," said Erickson.
"We have to make ends
meet in food service. Be-thel
probably operates on
one of the smallest food
service budgets for a col-some
unnecessary main-tenance
costs.
The lottery system has
been abolished in favor of
a system where students
choose the apartments in
which they will live and
are granted their choices
according to present hous-ing,
their class at Bethel
and then on a first-come-first-
served basis.
March 30, applications
will be taken for those
who wish to remain in
their current residence for
the next school year.
Those who wish to be
housed in the same build-ing
but a different apart-ment,
will turn in their
applications a week later.
lege its size in the coun-try."
He said irnost col-leges
can not compare
their $1 million food ser-vice
budget to the approx-imately
$700,000 Bethel
spends.
After spring break, Erick-son
and Judy Helman, as-sistant
director, plan to
spend a few days in
dorms, trying to explain
food service to people, "for
people who would like to
know more about it or
who don't understand it
in the first place," Erick-son
said, chuckling.
From this point, the se-lection
is according to the
students' school classifica-
_ tions, from seniors to spe-cial
students, and based
on the lowest-priority
rank in each roommate
grouping.
If a housing application
is rejected because it is
improperly filled out, or
because the apartment or
townhouse chosen has
been taken, the applicants
will have to make changes
and resubmit their appli-cations.
A list of housing
which has been designated
will be posted near the
student affairs office.
Housing for married stu-dents
is new this year.
The one-bedroom apart-ments
in three Silvercrest
buildings: 2030, 2060 and
2090, are reserved for cou-ples.
Most of the campus
housing, excluding Arden
Village East B4, 5 and 6; C;
D; E and F4, 5 and 6, are
for freshmen only.
Long has also worked
on revising the lease, to
make it more clear and
concise.
Last Monday through
Thursday, March 16-19,
Long conducted a series of
questions and answer ses-sions
in each of the resi-dences
to inform students
about the new housing pro-cedures.
Senior "spruce-up"
springs into action
Food service dish disappearances reappear
The third annual
"Spruce Up a Senior's
Spring" will be held April
11 this year. "Spruce Up a
Senior's Spring" is an out-reach
to senior citizens in
the St. Paul area, using
Bethel students to help do
spring cleaning that they
are unable to do them-selves.
In 1979 the Campus
Ministries Office began
working with the Wilder
Foundation in St. Paul to
develop an outreach that
would help senior citi-zens.
Among other pro-grams,
the Wilder Center
offers daytime activities
for senior citizens who
still are able to live in
their own homes.
For "Spruce tip a Sen-ior's
Spring" the Wilder
Center registers its mem-bers
that have spring
cleaning that they are un-able
to do. Most often this
work is raking the lawn,
changing and washing
storm windows, and mov-ing
furniture indoors to
clean around and behind
it. Bethel students then
supply the manpower to
do the work and the resi-dents
provide all the sup-plies.
Last year, due to a
smaller student turnout
than expected, each car-load
of student volunteers
was assigned to do work
at 3 or 4 homes. This year
to make it go more smooth-ly
30 homes will be gua-ranteed
a group of stu-see
page 11
seriously ought to medi-tate
on Matthew 7:2, "For
in the same way you judge
others, you will be judged,
and with the measure you
use, it will be measured to
you."
I realize that people
such as Steven Judy make
the Bible a difficult book
to live by. Be that as it
may, are we to forgive or
seek revenge on our ene-mies?
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editorial
Court decisions can eventually backfire
Following a general trend toward active conserva-tism,
many Christians are asking courts to guard and
support their beliefs—as in the fight to put prayer back
in the schools. Since these advocates call on all Chris-tians
to support their attempts, it is important to under-stand
all the implications of the court actions.
Going through the courts may win a short-sighted
goal, but court decisions are two-edged swords. What
we throw at our adversaries they have the legal right to
throw back at us.
For example, with the right to pray in schools comes
the right for prayer to any god. With the teaching of
creation on religious, rather than scientific, grounds,
comes the right to teach other religious beliefs or
practices.
Not long ago, a Christian took the transcendental
"To know that which before us lies in daily life is the
prime wisdom."
—John Milton, from Paradise Lost, 1667
Foresight. If we all had it, perhaps half of our prob-lems
would be solved.
Not all of us are blessed with it—to be expected—but
the tragedy is that in recent years, fewer and fewer
people have possessed this gift. We live in an "eat,
drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die" society.
Look around:
Throughout the 70s the U.S. congress year after year
exceeded the federal budget by billions of dollars.
Why? Because highly influential special interest
groups demanded money, and elected officials did not
want to go on record as opposing funding for minori-ties,
the poor, education, etc. The result? We now have
a budget deficit approaching the one trillion mark, not
to mention the inflation which has significant reduced
the dollar's buying power. (The U.S. federal govern-ment
prints extra money to pay its bills. The law of
supply and demand dictates that when the supply of
money is greater than the supply of goods and services,
its value decreases.)
People are starving in Somalia, India, and other
places around the world. Others have responded by
sending food and medical aid.
Why? For the sake of humanity and compassion. The
result? Lives are saved today, but for every one life
saved today, an additional two or three people will die
from starvation in 20 years. Our feeble attempts to
save the half-billion starving people today will double
the suffering and number of starvation victims two
decades from now.
A married couple decides to rent housing as they feel
they cannot afford to buy.
Why? Interest rates and home prices have made
housing too expensive. The result? They wait five
years and still feel the costs of home ownership are too
high. They have paid for rented housing for five years
and still have nothing to show for it. They could have
been building equity and watched the value of their
investment keep pace with inflation (They could have
rented out part of their home to help pay mortgage
costs.)
Foresight does not mean one should not take risks. It
simply means to realistically consider the future
impact of a decision made now. It is a quality of leader-ship
to reject a popular idea in the present tense, con-sidering
its implications in the future tense. It is a
quality of Christianity not to live for a present world
on earth, but to live for a future world.
Granted, not everything can be predicted. Who
would have guessed 15 years ago that OPEC would
monopolize oil prices, or that Social Security would
begin to run out of money? Still, too many potential
meditation movement to court, claiming it should not be
allowed in schools since it is a religious movement. We
cannot protest other religious teachings in our schools
if our insistence does not include our religion.
Some Christians have asked California court to allow
the teaching of creation. But they made the mistake of
insisting that religious freedom be the grounds. How
can the courts allow creation and deny T.M. on these
same grounds?
There is no simple answer to these questions. Each
citizen has a right to got to the courts to protect his/er
freedom. But when we go, we must look beyond the
simple solutions to the implications of the decision they
demand.
—sg
problems are ignored until it is too late. It seems gaso-line
lines have to reach a certain length, the budget has
to reach a certain deficit, etc. before people look
seriously at the problems at hand.
How serious must a problem get before we do
something?
Thank heaven for the futurists who decided 20 years
ago that Bethel would have to relocate its entire cam-pus,
for those who began enacting legislation to solve
our pollution problems and for others who initiated
programs to limit nuclear arms. May we all have the
foresight to think in the future tense, applying it to
every aspect of our lives.
—jsr
To the Editor: butive justice is, at best,
Just after midnight on an unenlightened interpre-
Monday, March 9, Steven tation of the purpose of
Judy died in the electric law. Legally, society has a
chair in Michigan City, right to demand protec-
Indiana. Although Judy tion, but no right what-was
indeed guilty of rape soever to demand re-and
murder, his execution venge.
was an indictment against
Next, from a moral
justice. While society does standpoint, Judy's execu-have
a right to be pro- tion was a degradation of
tected from felons such as the value of human life.
Steven Judy, there was no Morally abortion is con-legal
or moral justification sidered wrong because is
for his execution. does not regard the hu-
From a legal standpoint, man sanctity of the fetus.
the state of Indiana acted Capital punishment does
in an irresponsible man- not regard the sanctity of
ner. The fact that Judy human life as well. Does
requested the death penal- society have a moral duty
ty was no a valid reason to execute its enemies?
for killing him. For exam- That would be like argu-ple,
if I were to request
ing that society has a right
that a friend of mine shoot
to abort fetuses because
me because I lacked the the baby might be deform-guts
to kill myself, the ed.
courts would never up- Furthermore, Steven Ju-hold
my friend's case. My dy's execution was a par-friend
would indeed be ticular embarrassment to
convicted of murder. the Christian sub-culture
Thus, I contend that the of our society. I suggest
state of Indiana has com- that before we as Chris-mitted
murder. The law tians sit people like Ste-ought
not to be used as a
means of obtaining cold- chair, turn on the juice
ven Judy in the electric
blooded revenge on the and triumphantly claim,
enemies of society. Retri- "He had it coming," we
Opinions expressed on this page are the sole
responsibility of the individual editors.
Futurists avoid future problems with foresight
letters
Death of Judy makes Christian life hard to live
Dona Amann, sophomore, 1981-82 Spire edi- Leanne Kicker, junior, Clarion editor for 1981-
tor (photo by Doug Barkey). 82 (photo by Doug Barkey).
1981-82 media chiefs chosen
by Patty Sutton
Student senate voted
Tuesday on the recom-mendations
for the cam-pus
coordinators and me-dia
chiefs. Leann Kicker
was chosen as Clarion
editor and Dona Amann
was appointed editor of
the Spire.
The recommendation to
accept Lori Droogsma and
Sherwood McKinnis as
the new campus coordi-nators
was rejected. The
senate requested that the
selection committee meet
Notice
Due to spring break,
a tight production bud-get
and other semi-regular
occurrences,
the Clarion will not re-sume
its regular pro-duction
schedule until
April 24. We will see
our readers before then
in an irregular pro -
duc tion.
Page 3
To the Editor:
" Ultimately, we've got
to be Christian," stated
Don Belton, assistant pro-fessor
in the social work
department. The issue in
question is racial integra-tion,
or rather the lack of
it at Bethel College.
I was recently made
Aware of some disturbing
statistics. The total num-ber
of minority students
at Bethel comprise less
than 1 per cent of the stu-dent
enrollment. And less
than 10 per cent of these
minority students ever
graduate from Bethel.
How can this be, at a
school that purports "not
to discriminate on the ba-sis
of age, color, ethnic/na-tional
origin, physical han-dicap,
race, or sex...?"
There is little doubt that
we have a problem. Either
minority students avoid
Bethel, or the ones who
To the Editor:
Bethel's environment
tends to produce sterile,
"cookie-cut ter"* Christ-y.
One cause of such
is the infamous LIFE-STYLE
• STATEMENT.
The lifestyle statement
firstly invites only Chris-tians
to attend Bethel, and
thereby neglects an out-reach-
for-Christ oppor-tunity
unique to a Chris-tian
liberal arts college for
the agnostic, potential Be-thel
students who are
searching for an answer.
At the Bethel oasis, this
outreach opportunity,
unique to a Christian lib-eral
arts professor, is de-nied;
minds are being
wasted.
If the lifestyle state-ment
were to read, "Bethel
invites any prospective
liberal arts students who
wants to be challenged by
Christianity," then per-haps
Bethel would be-come
more of an outreach
to the collegiate "world."
True, there would pro-bably
be more radicals
and a worldly sector on
campus, but Christ him-self
commanded us to be
in the world and yet not of
it. In other words, it is
intrinsic to dynamic
Christianity to be exposed
to the "real world," i.e.
non-Christian people.
come have a difficult time
making it through.
I was in a group looking
into this problem. We in-terviewed
Don Belton be-cause
of his acquaintance
with the problem and his
participation in a task
force to deal with it. He
said that many prospec-tive
minority students are
warned by former stu-dents
about the subtle
signs of predjudice and
cultural misunderstand-ings
that occur here. Those
students who do come find
the warnings to be true.
Prejudice does happen
at Bethel. It can be as sim-ple
as not talking to a
minority students, or as
crude as a valentine from
the KKK. (This happened
here.) Even class lectures
may be unconsciously
geared for only white, mid-dle-
class Baptist Scandi-navians.
These classes can
Bethel is not the "real"
world! Christ was a rebel
and a minority in - a hostile
environment. Bethel's en-vironment
is just the op-posite.
One may point with tre-pidation
at the Hamline,
Gustavus, etc. campuses
to warn of impending
doom. But who really
knows where they falter-ed,
or if they really did.
Just because they may
have failed doesn't mean
we should hide cowardly
in our corner of the world,
for this is not spirit of
Christ.
It is very possible that
with a dynamic and dedi-cated
Christian faculty
and staff, Bethel could be-come
a battleground for
Christ, rather than an oa-sis
of Christian apathy.
And if Bethel were to fal-ter
under such conditions,
then the present lifestyle
statement is a meaning-less
and condescending fa-cade
of ethics (rather than
a statement of a student
faith), because the individ-ual
student's faith would
have been rendered false
in the face of a "real world"
challenge.
Doug Newman
P.O. 177
*Greek ranSla tion—no-dos
onihros nodos
he very confusing to some-one
from a different cul-ture.
One young woman
dropped out the week be-fore
finals last year be-cause
she had difficulty
understanding the materi-al
in the way it was pre-sented.
The tragic aspect is that
some of these students
who don't make it here
blame themselves, consid-ering
themselves to be fail-ures.
How can we as a
Christian community al-low
this to happen to our
brothers and sisters in Je-sus?
Although the problem
cannot be solved over-night,
there are steps that
we as a student body can
take to alleviate it.
First, we must work to
create an environment that
is welcoming and warm to
everyone, not just those of
our own race and culture.
Specifically this means to
treat our minority stu-dents
as people, brothers
and sisters having the
same Lord.
We must strive to elim-inate
the subtle acts of
prejudice that we may
even hardly be aware of.
Most of all we need to
pray that God will mold
Bethel into a community
where all Christians can
learn, regardless of their
race and culture. Until this
happens, we do not reflect
the wonderful variety in
the body of Christ and
cannot call ourselves a
Christian school As Don
Belton said, the solution is
that "Ultimately, we've got
to be Christian."
Daryl Morrissey
Prejudice subtle, but present
Lifestyle cause of
cookie-cutter life
again and bring whom-ever
it recommends the
second time to the entire
senate body for a short
interview before it votes
again.
The problem with the
selection of the campus
coordinators was that the
evaluation process was
being called into question.
from page 2
Unfortunately, all of us
are the long-run losers in
the execution of Judy. Win-ston
Churchill stated,
"The mood and temper of
the public with regard to
the treatment of crime and
criminals is one of the
most unfailing tests of the
civilization of a country."
For this reason, I contend
that by condoning the kil-ling
of Judy our society
and our Christian sub-cul-ture
in particular have tak-en
a large step backwards.
In closing, I would like
Some senators were con-cerned
about the lack of
information about the
choices prior to voting.
Others had heard reports
from constituents about
the choices and wished to
look into the matter fur-ther
before assenting.
Roster and KABY posi-see
page 11
to point out the fact that I
am not defending Steven
Judy. He needed to be pun-ished,
but certainly not
murdered. Further I am
not a bleeding-heart lib-eral
who wants to come to
the aid of every psychotic
killer in this country.
However, I do contend
that the manner in which
the state of Indiana hand-led
the Steven Judy case
was a crude, barbaric and
uncivilized rendition of
"justice."
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Frank La Tona
MarchP 90. 109 81
Forty adults over 60 participated in Bethel's Elderhostel program last summer (photo by Doug
Barkey).
Minnesota Governor Albert Quie announced a $1.7 million
increase in the scholarship and grant program January 27.
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Over-60 find Elderhostel rewarding
The Minnesota Associ-ation
of Private College
Students (MAPCS) has
opened the first phase of a
letter writing campaign in-tended
to address the
state and federal changes
in student financial aid,
programs which threaten
to force one out of every 10
students out of college.
The MAPCS has an-nounced
that is will soli-cit
letters from its 35,000
member constituency ad-dressing
proposed cut-backs
in the Minnesota
State Scholarship and
Grant Program.
January 27, 1981, Gov-ernor
Albert Quie an-nounced
he was request-ing
only a $1.4 million
increase in the scholar-ship
and grant program.
The Minnesota Higher Ed-ucation
Coordinating
Board, a state advisory
agency, have requested a
$37 million increase to
maintain current $1,400
maximum grant, compen-sate
for inflationary rises
in college costs over the
past year and provide
awards to eligible stu-dents
in the increasing
pool of students seeking
aid.
It is estimated by the co-ordinating
board that un-derfunding
the program
by nearly $16 million over
the next two years will
result in as many as
12,600 students being re-fused
aid and an addition-al
9,000 students being de-nied
the opportunity to
have their applications re-viewed
for eligibility due
to lack of funds.-To assure
these students an award
of some size, the program
would be forced to reduce
each of the awards made
by Joanne Watkins
Bethel is just one of 22
Minnesota colleges and
universities participating
in Elderhostel '81. Elder-hostel
is a nationwide
summer college program
for persons over 60.
"I personally think it is
the most exciting thing on
campus all year," said
Dean Tricia Brownlee. "It
is super in some small
way to serve the older
people and the commun-ity,"
she continued. About
40 men and women will
move to Bethel July 19 for
a week of "living and
learning."
Activities for the older
courage private college
students to write to their
own legislators and those
on key state committees
in reference to the scho-larship
and grant pro-gram.
As a part of the let-ter
drive, MAPCS will
sponsor a inter-school
competition allowing it to
determine how many let-ters
have been sent to
state legislators regard-ing
the necessity of the
state scholarship and
grant program.
Students interested in
assisting with the letter
drive's education effort
are asked to call the
MAPCS state office at
(612) 641 -2455 or to con-tact
their student govern-ment
leaders.
by Patty Sutton
"The Christian Con-science
and the Payment
of War Taxes" was the
topic of a meeting held
Monday, March 9. Min-nesota
War Tax Resisters
presented the meeting,
sponsored by the People
of Faith Peacemakers lo
inform the public about
their views.
People from varied back-grounds
with different in-tensities
of belief met to
discuss their ideas, rally
support and suggest pos-sible
individual response.
One man at the meeting
said, "It would be immor-al
and insane to pay war
tax, because it is hiring
someone to do something
I would not do myself."
It is estimated that 33.1
adults include field trips,
cultural events and cam-pus
activities. The Como
Conservatory, the Muse-urn
of Natural History,
the Minnesota Symphony,
a Twins' game and a ban-quet
at the end of the week
are some of the activities.
planned.
The focal point of the
week is the classes offer-ed.
Each of the participat-ing
schools offers three
courses covering a broad
interest scope. Classes to
be taught at Bethel include
"Artists and You: Learn to
See What They See"
taught by art instructor
Barbara Glenn. A course
entitled "Moses and Mor-ality"
will be taught by
Dr. Arthur Lewis. "Life in
the Thirties: The Way it
Was" will be taught by Dr.
Roy Dalton.
The classes are held
every day for one to two
hours. They do not have
exams or required home-work.
Though they do not
receive grades, last year
there was a graduation
ceremony. Wearing Beth-el
frisbees as their caps,
the students received dip-lomas
as "Masters of
Youthful Thinking."
"I enjoyed all of the pro-gram:
meeting people and
courses and going out on
the trips," said Carl Rad-ke,
Elderhostel partici-pant.
He and his wife Mar-ian
participated with 40
other older adults last
summer.
The Radkes, both re-per
cent of federal income
tax goes into the fund for
military expenditures.
Some people have pushed
the percentage as high as
49.9 by including past mil-itary
expenses and the
nuclear arms race.
Another problem dis-cussed
was the federal
excise tax on telephone
services. Some of the mo-ney
pays for military ex-penses
and people against
war tax refuse to pay that
portion.
The majority of war tax
objectors do not keep the
taxes they withhold. In-stead,
they channel it into
the World Peace Tax Fund
or the Minnesota Alterna-tive
Fund, which sponsor
grants for groups work-ing
on peaceful projects.
In the Twin Cities area,
the movement has 200 peo-tired,
came to Bethel for
the classes. "I appreciated
the warmth of the people
at Bethel," commented
Mrs. Radke. Mr. Radke
said he felt this warmth
was due partially to the
Christian environment.
He said the close contact
with the professors made
him feel at home.
"My most rewarding ex-periences,"
said Dr. Lew-is,
who also taught last
year, "were there class re-sponses."
He said their
minds were young, their
interest was obvious and
they were very alert. "If
anything there is height-ened
motivation," com-mented
Dr. Lewis as he
compared them to college
students.
"It keeps you in touch
with people and your
mind active," said Mr.
Radke. "It is very infor-mative
and good. You
learn something new," he
added.
The cost for the week is
$140 which includes
room, board, tuition and
most activities. The hos-telers
stay in the dormi-tory
and eat in the cafete-ria.
"The only complaint,"
said Brownlee, "is that
they wish there were kids
around."
Registration forms and
a catalog may be obtained
by telephoning Minneso-ta
Elderhostel at 376-2704.
Details about the Bethel
program may be secured
from Dr. Tricia Brownlee,
638-6367.
pie on its mailing list, at
least 60 people withhold-ing
federal income tax
and 150-200 resisting the
telephone tax.
One man said, "I won-der
if Jesus ever said, 'I'd
like to be the one through
whom the world is re-deemed,
but I don't want
to go to the cross. Do we
ask this?"
tinder the Reagan ad-ministration,
the move-ment
expects a stronger,
more solidified response
to tax resistance.
One way to avoid the
war tax problem -is to fill
out a W-4 withholding
form and pay for taxes
collectively each year.
That eliminates automatic
tax withholding and gives
the individual more free-dom
of choice about how
much lax to pay.
to the current 46,000 recip-ients
by an amount yet to
be determined.
Each participant in the
program is required to put
$700 per year toward their
tuition costs under the eli-gibility
formula. In addi-tion,
only 85 per cent of
the student's educational
costs (tuition, room and
board) is used to deter-mine
eligibility.
The MAPCS letter drive
begins Wednesday, March
18. It is intended to en-
MAPCS begins first phase of campaign
War Tax Resisters present views
The Rev. Bruce Thiel-man
will speak in cha-pel
March 30-31. Thiel-man
is dean of chapel
at Grove City College.
An alumnus of Grove
City College, Thielman
devotes more of his
time to college, univer-sity
and seminary min-istries
than to any
other area of service.
He has spoken at Be-thel
in the past.
Thielman earned his
B.A. at Westminster
College and his B.D. at
Pittsburg-Xenia Theo-logical
Seminary in
1959. He recieved a
Doctor of Divinity de-gree
from Grove City
College in 1972. In 1973
he was given the Doc-tor
of Letters degree by
Sterling College, Sterl-ing,
Kans. Thielman
was born in Pittsburg,
Penn. in April of 1933.
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Eight blood donors earn pins
school German students
and their teachers are ex-pected
to attend the con-vention,
according to Su-zanne
Jebe, program spe-cialist
in modern and clas-sical
languages for the
Minnesota Department of
commitment and concern Of the 256 donors ac-for
people of the area. cepted, several received
This year Ruth Oliver pins from the Red Cross
and Laurie Lindahl coor- to recognize that over a
dinated the drive. Lindahl certain period they each
and Oliver worked hard have given a gallon of
to make the blood drive a blood. The following indi-success
and further the viduals received pins:
good standing and repu- Deborah Ross, Elizabeth
tation of Bethel with the Weinberg, Laura Phillips,
Red Cross. Keith Bergstrom, Ann Rob-bins,
Mike Bryan, Bo Bur-
Concern mounted ear- ridge and Kim Mullin.
her in the week as the
number of people to work
and to give progressed
slowly. But the donors
and the workers came
through and made the
drive successful.
board of regents, who
make the final decision.
"We then hope to an-nounce
the candidate well
ahead of the annual meet-ing
in June," said Healy,
"so the public will have a
chance to get to know the
candidate before he is
presented in Omaha."
Mum's the word concerning next president
The new president will
work with Lundquist for
all of next year, until
Lundquist leaves in next
June. After leaving Bethel,
Dr. Lundquist will have
served his 28th year at the
The committee presents helm of Bethel College
and Seminary.
by Tim Wilbee
Who the next president
of Bethel College and Sem-inary
will be may be the
best kept secret in the
Baptist General Confer-ence
(BGC). Due to Dr.
Carl Lundquist's impend-ing
retirement the need to
find a new chief executive
arose. BGC chief execu-'
tives must retire at 65. A
search committee was
formed last year in re-sponse,
responsible for
presenting a candidate in
time for the BGC annual
meeting in Omaha, Neb.,
this June.
The board of regents
formed the committee,
which consists of two fa-culty
members (one from
both the seminary and the
from page 9
computer, $5400; and Wil-derness
Challenge (course
offered in the summer for
freshmen), $10,240.
• Some of the other less
significant sources of reve-nue
include traffic fines,
$2500; tuition deposit for-from
page 10
Listings are arranged
according to college dis-ciplines,
including intern-ships
in business and in-dustry,
newspapers, broad-casting,
education, gov-ernment,
health and medi-cine,
law, museums, per-forming
and visual arts,
college), four regents and
one person selected from
the constituency.
Robert Luther, from San
Diego, Calif. chairs the
committee. He was in the
Twin Cities last Thurs-day
and Friday to inter-view
candidates. "We
have narrowed the list of
candidates to eight now,"
he said, "and would like to
narrow that number to
two or three. However,"
he added, "who these can-didates
are is extremely
confidential."
Nominations for the po-sition
were solicited from
within the conference (in-cluding
the Bethel cam-pus)
and also from out-side.
The committee care-fully
researched all can-didates.
Intensive inter-feitures
$2500; rent late
fee (from seminary) $1000,
LRC fines, $1500; copy ser-vice
(cash sales), $2500;
and an administrative al-lowance
from the govern-ment
for administering the
NDSL, SEOG and work
study programs, $43,000.
science and research, and
social service organiza-tions.
The book sells for
$7.95.
Both books may be pur-chased
at local book-stores,
or by writing to
Writer's Digest Books,
9933 Alliance Road, Cin-cinnati,
Ohio 45242.
After much work and
pleading for donors and
workers, the spring Be-thel
blood drive became a
reality last Thursday in
the gym. The spring and
fall drives give Bethel
students the chance to
reach out to the commu-nity
and give the gift of
life.
Past encounters be-tween
the Red Cross staff
and the Bethel commu-nity
have given the school
a gOod reputation with
the Red Cross and the en-tire
metro area. This is just
one way that students, fa-culty
and staff show a
by Ginger Hope
Bethel's campus is the
site of the 1980-81 conven-tion
of the Minnesota As-sociation
of Students of
German (MNASG) April
4 - 5.
Several hundred high
dates' Christian character
is looked at; their reputa-tion
and commitment to
Christ is examined."
While the candidates do
not necessarily have to be
members of the BGC, they
must be compatible with
conference interests.
Healy assisted Luther
in last week's interviews,
and they will present their
findings to a full commit-tee
meeting March 26.
The committee hopes to
reduce the number of can-didates
to two or three.
their final selection to the
The next blood drive
comes in October. The
job of coordinating such
a task falls in the hands of
Laurie Lindahl and Steve
Jarabeck.
Education.
Jebe said the program
emphasizes "having fun
within the context of a
learning experience." The
weekend will feature- a va-riety
of topics, from Ger-man
arts and crafts to soc-cer.
German students from
Bethel will host the group.
The keynote speaker for
the convention is Dr. Ger-hard
Weiss, professor of
German at the University
of Minnesota. Also on the
program are a Sunday
morning church service in
German, a student variety
show and guided tours of
the campus by upper-level
German students from
Bethel.
Students will stay in the
college and seminary gym-nasiums
and eat in the
cafeteria.
Saturday evening, a trio
of German musicians will
entertain Bethel students
and visitors during the
supper hour.
viewing has been part of
this process.
Jerry Healy, the college's
committee member, des-cribed
the criteria deve-loped
for the ideal candi-date.
A solid educational
background and theologi-cal
training of some sort is
desirable to enable the fu-ture
president to address
seminary interests.
The committee also
seeks administrative ex-perience
in education and
an understanding and
commitment to liberal
arts schooling. "And,"
said Healy, "the candi-
Bethel welcomes German students
Dale Johnson, associate professor of art, will lead an art tour of Europe, designed especially for
non-art majors (photo by Tom Twining).
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Bonita Wahl, of "Thursday's at 3" fame, continues with the now
expanded group, called Aptix (photo by Tom Twining).
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Tour plans artful Europe
arts education, followed
by a mock lecture given
by Dr. Jim Johnson, pro-fessor
of history.
They had the option of
tracks A, B and C, de-signed
to include chapel,
classes, a mock class and
. additional times from
1:15-1:45 in the afternoon
to meet with professors
and coaches of their
choice.
Students were encour-aged
to attend classes of
interest from a class sche-dule
made available dur-ing
registration. The class
schedule offered D mo-dule,
11:10-12:00 and E
module, 12:10-1:10 as a-vailable
times to attend
classes. It listed classes
all the way from art and
biology to philosophy and
theatre arts, meeting dur-ing
these times.
The afternoon closed
with a session in the cafe-teria
involving a time
when three current Bethel
students, Jeff Westund,
Cynthia Pennington and
Cheryl Austring, shared
some thoughts about Be-thel.
They told what was
available as far as student
by Lorelei J. Markson
Optics iap-tiks / n. p1.1:
properties relating to vi-sion
or the eye.
A few arts students at
Bethel have a vision.
Theirs is called Aptix /
ap-tiks / n. 1: A group of
students who see a. the
need to encourage one an-other
in the visual arts. b.
the need to discuss their
own art and the art of oth-ers.
c. the opportunity to
expand their awareness of
art in the surrounding
by Jay Stuart Russell
Visit to the European
art treasures of Paris, Flor-ence
and Venice are just a
few of the stops planned
in Bethel's summer course,
"The Visual Arts in Eur-ope."
Dale Johnson, asso-ciate
professor of art, will
lead the tour, which is list-ed
as a creativity balance
course and worth one Beth-el
credit.
Students will fly round-trip
on a chartered jet from
Minneapolis to Paris, leav-ing
May 27 and returning
activities and social life,
as well as emphasizing the
need to be prayerful in
making the decision to at-tend
Bethel. Also Sharon
Worthington, director of
financial aid, discussed
the option of financial aid
and encouraged students
to check into this. She
mentioned that 85 per
cent of the students cur-rently
enrolled at Bethel
receive some source of
financial aid.
Most of the high school
students that participat-ed
in the campus visit day
had made the decision to
attend Bethel in the fall of
81. The general prospec-tive
student reaction was
positive toward Bethel;
they felt very welcome
and found Bethel students
friendly and helpful. The
classroom experience was
helpful in getting a taste
of the daily college life,
although a number of stu-dents
felt that a one-day
session was not enough
time to get to know the
students or the college.
This is only one out of 10
different recruiting em-phasis
days.
community.. d. a unique
time and place to consider
what it means to be both a
Christian and an artist.
As an offspring of last
semester's "Thursday's at
3," begun by faculty mem-ber
Bonita Wahl, Aptix is
the art students' baby. The
time, Thursday at 3 p.m.,
and the place, the art gal-lery,
remain unchanged.
The group focuses on
encouraging individuals to
nurture their creativity in-dependently
of the class-
June 19. Cost for the tour
is $1500.
"The tour will be espe-cially
built to introduce
non-art majors to the rich
heritage so- readily evident
in these major art centers
in Europe," Johnson said.
He stressed that students
do not need an art back-ground
to take the course.
Johnson will perform a
dual role as the tour's ar-tist
guide. Course work
will involve lecture-tours,
discussions, readings and
a personal journal, but "it
will not be all work," John-son
added. "Sight-seeing,
bartering in European
shops, people-watching
and just enjoying spring
in Europe will fill the after-room
and hopes to pro-mote
unity among art stu-dents
so that they can sup-port
one another in their
efforts. They hope to do
this in a number of ways.
Thursdays they will dis-cuss
different topics im-portant
to individual art
students and their work,
as well as those topics
currently under discus-sion
in the art world in
general. They may view
and discuss films and the
art work of fellow si u-noons
of the tour:: he said.
The group will travel by
motorcoach in Europe,
staying in student hous-ing
or economy class ho-tels.
Breakfast and dinner
is included in the tour's
cost.
A tentative itinerary for
the tour includes stops in
six European countries:
France, Italy, Switzerland,
Austria, West Germany
and the Netherlands. Mu-seums
and Cathedrals in
the tour include Chartres.
Versailles, Notre Dame,
the Louvre and the Uffizi
and Pitti Palace in Flor-ence.
Stops at the graphic
design centers in Basel,
Switzerland are also on
the agenda.
dents or faculty. In addi-tion
to the Thursday ses-sions,
the members plan
trips to galleries, exhibits,
films and other areas of
interest.
They will try to keep all
those involved informed
about art events via a pub-lication
or bulletin board.
In this way they hope to
create an awareness
among the art students
and to inspire individuals
to commitment and con-viction
in their own work.
by Mary Swisher
If you noticed unfamil-iar
faces around campus
this past Friday, it might
have been due to the 200
prospective students who
visited Bethel Friday,
March 13. Bethel had its
Spring campus visit day
for prospective students,
reaching students from
up to 150 miles away.
The day began with re-gistration
at 9:45 a.m. and
ended with an afternoon
panel discussion at 2:30.
Events were planned and
organized by Steve Whit-taker,
recruitment coordi-nator,
and Phil Kimball,
director of admissions, to
enable those interested to
experience a typical col-lege
day at Bethel. Se-lected
Bethel students
served as hosts and host-esses,
giving tours and
taking the students to
chapel, classes and lunch.
The purpose for the
visit day was to get stu-dents
on campus and help
them get the feel for aca-demic
life. The prospec-tive
students could choose
to attend a sample class
which dealt with the pur-pose
of a Christian liberal
Campus visit day primes prospective students
Baby Aptix nurtures creativity
free education. With the
cost of Bethel rising and
my eight-year program it
was going to cost me a
fortune.
the job and think that
what you do won't matter.
If you and enough of your
friends think of others
first instead of yourselves,
"O.K., I've made my
choice. I want a new car
and free education. How
about a trip around the
world also?"
"Fine, your first two
wishes are granted. Now
I'll take you on that trip
around the world. Follow
me."
I expected the best trip
of my life. Our first stop
was El Salvador. I saw a
war-torn country with
people killing each other. I
wanted to leave.
We then went to Cam-bodia
where I saw people
starving and dying. We
left there, but it didn't mat-ter
where we went. Each
place was just as terrible
as the last. I felt so help-less.
"Mulligan, I want to do
something to help. Grant
me another wish," I said.
"Sorry, You have used
your wishes on yourself.
But don't look at the size of
the job might be accom-plished."
I awoke suddenly. What
a dream! I thought I had to
be too anxious for spring
break trip to have a weird
dream like that. Let's see, I
need to find my swimsuit.
I'm sure I'm going to need
it down in the Bahamas. I
have to be sure to bring....
Too often we are willing
to do things for others but
at what point are we wil-ling
make sacrifices? We
put stipulations on what
we will do. Sure, I'll give
or help, but not until I get
my new car or my new
stereo. The job is big, but
workers are scarce. It's
time for all of us to make
the job smaller.
But the desire to work
has to come from the heart.
No one can make anyone
else do anything. Let's not
use up all of our "wishes"
on ourselves.
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Wish for others as you would wish for yourself
rights too. Don't I get a pot
of gold or something like
that?"
"Well it used to be that
way," he said, reminis-cing,
"but because of the
price of gold we gave that
up. Now we offer three
wishes instead. So, what
do you want?"
Millions of things raced
through my mind, but, be-cause
I was a rationalist I
first thought of a new car
to replace my old rust
heap. I then considered a
by Brice S. Russell
St. Patrick's Day. What
a strange day, I thought to
myself as I jogged around
the Bethel campus. It sure
was a great feeling to be
up at six in the morning to
see God's beauty. But I
though it was ironic to see
brown everywhere, be-cause
the St. Patrick's Day
color is green.
All of a sudden I heard a
rustle in the woods.
Thoughts of muggers,
weirdos and who-knows-what
raced through my
mind. I squinted to try and
see what it was. It came
closer, and I really started
to panic.
After I saw the size of
the thing, I was not so
afraid, I yelled, "What are
you?" The thing, a sawed
off tiny little man in a
green suit, peered at me.
He took off running as
fast as his little legs would
go. Since I had some track
experience (I had to run
the mile for a P.E. compo-by
Ted Lewis
Imagine a nickel with only one side. How about a
one-sided door or ID card? Impossible, isn't it? Perhaps
you could paint them on canvas and see only one side,
but without two sides those objects could never by
handled.
Similarily, one-sided spirituality has no depth and is
viewed only on the surface. In the context of American
Christianity, we have tended to stock our houses and
hotels on a spiritual monopoly of good feelings. "If you
have faith, things will go smoothly." Consequently, the
dark side of rough struggles has been banished from
the real estate of spirituality.
One-sided spirituality refers to pursuing positive
experiences in life by preventing negative experiences
from playing a necessary role in one's growth. The
previous article on fixes and the story both showed our
proneness to cover over our personal problems rather
than admit them and work through them. This article
extends this issue in the light of American Christian-it
y.
Products to buy. Entertainment to see. Gatherings to
attend. Sex. Vacations. Parties. Experience. Experi-ence.
Experience. Our culture bows to the gods of grati-fication.
And no wonder the competition is so great:
everything guarantees a good experience.
Amid this sea of emotional appeals, American Chris-tianity
echoes the same line to stay afloat. "Listen! We
also guarantee full satisfaction!" In many cases, the
meat of Christianity has -been boiled down to "what's
in it for me?" At extreme, we are parasites feasting on
our 'pie in the sky' on earth in order to get high off it.
Me-Christianity: I'll cite examples from my own life.
Bible reading and prayer: crutches to hobble over my
guilt with instant inspiration. Generated worship:
spiritual mast urbation that floods me • with fuzzy
warmth. A half-a-dozen or so . "second experiences":
final arrivals that raise me above others. Pat answers:
gold nuggets that impresses my wisdom on others.
All these made me feel smooth and secure! And yet
t hey screened out my weaknesses and insecurity deep
within. I had taken what was good, but wrapped them
around myself. On the surface: super-spirit ualit y! On
the inside: a wounded heart.
This self-centeredness is the mother of one-sided
spirituality. Rough experiences just don't fit into a life
that "should" be filled with good feelings all the time.
And so when those had sharks surface, we see them as
barriers to spirituality instead of bridges. This mind-set
leads us to escape struggles and put on smiling
masks.
Escapism follows a denial of the (lark side of reality.
"Life should be much better than it is." The t wo catego-ries
of escapism (or fixes) are transcendence and div-ersion.
The former alters our slate of consciousness so
that we rise from restlessness to calmness. The latter'
nent), I quickly caught
him. "Where's the fire,
shorty?" I asked him. He
was silent. "Come on," I
urged. "I'm not going to
hurt you."
He finally started to
speak. "My name is Mul-ligan
and I belong to the
International Society of
Leprechauns. Because of
my pledge to the Union, I
am instructed to grant you
three wishes."
"Wait a second there,
Mulligan. I know my
occupies our thoughts with activity so we need not
face our problems.
Similar to physical addictions, spiritual and reli-gious
fixes can make us over-dependent on them for
security. Yet, whether we sponge off of spiritual highs
or busy ourselves in pious activity, we harm ourselves
whenever we run from our dark side rather than con-front
it honestly.
In brief, we depend on experiences to free us from
our personal struggles. I call it "faith in our own faith,"
which banks on earning security. Again, this self-reliance
breeds a surface spirituality which masks
over our dark sides.
Americans are experts at delaying death. Despite the
wonderful benefits of medical technology, however, I
think we are afraid of death. Likewise we are experts
to cover over the pain of daily life. Perhaps we're afraid
of life too, as it is in reality.
That leaves us in quite a paradox with only three
options: 1) suicide; 2) pretend life should be smoother
and better, and live as if it were so; 3) accept life as it is
— imperfect, full of tension, messy, fallen — and not be
afraid. (Warning: most suicides occur with those who
take number two seriously.)
**** ***********
(The fourth article in this series will amplify the
third option above and braid many loose ends together.
Stay tuned.)
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The 45-member Bethel Women's Choir leaves today for a tour in the Pacific Northwest through
April 5.
Errol Tyrone (left), Juan Ramos, a 1980 Bethel graduate, and David Looby perform in the Harmon
Place Players' production of "The Fantasticks."
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Kansas sows music seeds
by T.R. Wilbee
Kansas, one of hard
rock's super-groups, visit-ed
the Twin Cities last
Saturday, playing to a
near-capacity crowd at the
Met Center in Blooming-ton.
The March 14 show
merited special interest on
the part of many rock mu-sic
fans, especially follow-ers
of contemporary Chris-tian
music.
Kerry Livgren, songwri-ter/
keyboardist/guitarist
for the band, made a
splash in the evangelical
Christian world last year
with his conversion and
subsequent solo album,
"Seed of Change." Livgren
has remained with Kan-sas,
and the group releas-ed
an album this winter
entitled "Audio Visions."
An aura of eager antici-pation
greeted Kansas' ar-rival
on stage and resulted
in a standing reception
that lasted through the
first three numbers. Open-ing
the hour-and-a-half set
with the hit "Point of
No Return," the band
played a repertoire that
included most of the "Au-dio
Visions" album plus a
collection of older songs,
including "Dust in the
Wind," "Hold on" and "Par-adox."
A la ser show highlight-ed
the concert, and if the
crowd's reaction was any
indication, Kansas was
every bit as welcome as
their last appearance here
in the summer of 1979. A
standing ovation brought
the band back on stage for
a double encore of "Por-trait"
and the classic, "Car-ry
on Wayward Son,"
which lasted until the
house lights came on, bid-ding
everyone a good-night.
The show exhibited the
philosophical tendencies
and musical ornateness
now expected from Kan-sas.
I was prompted to
consider throughout the
concert that this group
may lend the most cre-dence
to the often lacking
element of art in rock 'n'
roll.
Livgren, Mr. Mellow
personified on stage, be-came
a Christian in July of
1979. He discussed his
new life in a recent inter-view
with Progressive Pa-cer
magazine. He spoke of
his place as a Christian in
the field of rock music and
his desire to lead people to
Christ. "I don't feel like the
Lord's given me the gift of
writing this music and put
a vehicle into my hands—
Kansas has sold nine mil-lion
records and that's sort
of a vehicle to reach peo-ple—
it's not something
that I feel like the Lord
wants me to throw away.
The mild-mannered Liv-gren
sees a need to evan-gelize
to all the world. "I
very much want to be
evangelical," he remarked
in the interview, "That's
what 'Seeds of Change' is
all about—to reach that
huge audience of kids who
listen to rock and roll with
the message, because there
are very few people doing
that." He cited examples
of hundreds of letters from
listeners who claimed to
have been led to the Lord
through his music. His im-mediate
ministry has
brought Dave Hope, bas-sist
for Kansas, to a deci-sion
for Christ.
It is evident in 'Seeds of
Change' that Livgren has
arrived at a point he seems
to have been seeking, judg-ing
from his earlier Kan-sas
material:
I've been here and I've
been there
Seems like I've been
everywhere before
I've seen it all a hun-dred
times
Still I think there
surely must be more.
There is not question
upon examining the lyrics
of his solo album that Liv-gren
is a born-again Chris-tian:
You just can't doubt
the things that you feel
So lift me up, the time
has come to sing
And give up every-thing,
To live for the King
No doubt Livgren falls
suspect to those Chris-tians
who choose to be
judgmental of his involve-ment
with secular rock
music. But he feels called
to continue with the band.
"Before I was a Christian,"
the Pacer article said, "I
would have had no inter-est
in it. So I felt it was
very much God's will and
very necessary to get out
there in that huge secular
music business and pro-claim
the gospel."
see page 9
A new theater company
joins the ranks of the al-ready
sumptuous number
of theatres in the Minnea-polis
area. Opening
March 12 and running
for three consecutive
Thursday-Sunday week-ends,
Harmon Place Play-ers
present "The Fantas-ticks",
the well-known
Skaff and James Larson.
"The Fantasticks" was
chosen because the music
is excellent and the script
is good literature. Those
give actors and technical
people an opportunity to
stretch. Besides, it's
spring. And this play is
about love and growth,
about two young people
who are in love with the
idea of love and the two
fathers who attempt to
arrange their match, about
fate and the realization of
reality. It's a play which
reminds all of us that "love
and destiny can't often be
decided and nothing of
any value in life comes
without a little pain," said
Director Bormann.
Tickets are $4.00 and
reservations can be made
by calling Wendy Ander-son
at 535 -4692, after-noons
and evenings. Show
runs March 12 - 15, 19-22,
26-28 with one Sunday
Matinee, March 22 at 2:30.
Curtain time is 8 p.m.
musical by Harvy
Schmidt and Tom Jones.
Although not yet estab-lished
in the Harmon
Place territory, the corn-pany
plans to draw from a
community thick with ar-tists
and the culturally in-terested.
With Artistic Director
Louise Bormann, Musical
Director Lorna Anderson
and Managing Director
Wendy Anderson pooling
their efforts, the show is
well into its last week of
work. Cast members in-clude
Odd-Tank Nielson,
Juan Ramos (1980 Bethel
graduate), Donna Roberts,
Terry Carlson, David Loo-by,
Errol Tyrone, Theresa
New theatre offers Tantastick' cast
The rock group Kansas performed most of the hits from their album "Audio Visions" at last Saturday's concert in Minneapolis
(photo by Tom Wilbee).
Page 9
From Our
compiled by Jay Russell
They thought
chivalry was
dead then?
From the March, 1927
issue.
Chivalry
While women's issues
today deal with many
facets of women's rights,
women's issues 54 years
ago often tended toward
another direction, as evi-denced
in an article titled
"Chilvary," by Miss Effie
Nelson:
"Perhaps the most out-standing
reason for the
decadence of chivalry is
the want of courtesy. If
you beg to differ with me,
come with me on any
crowded street car. See
the elderly lady hanging
helplessly to the strap
just before a husky able-bodied
man, who sits com-fortably,
watches to see
how long grandma can
keep her balance.
"...Let us imagine, I say,
because it truly taxes the
imagination to see that
which has been declining
ever since that time (the
12th century, "when chi-valry
was at its best") and
is now but a faint gleam in
the distant past."
Effie, if • you thought
chivalry was on the de-cline
then...
An odd dish.
Jokes were a regular
feature of the Clarion in
its early years, in which
the anecdote "An Odd
Dish" toyed with a rela-tively
new invention called
the radio:
"A young bride...asked
her husband to copy off a
radio recipe she wanted.
He did his best, but got
two stations at once, one
of which was broadcast-ing
the morning exercies
and the other the recipe.
This is what he took
down:
"Hands on hips, place
one cup of flour on the
shoulders, raise knees
and depress toes and mix
thoroughly in one-half
cup of milk. Repeat_ six
times. Inhale quickly one-ha
If teaspoon of baking
powder, lower the legs
and mash Iwo hard-boiled
eggs in a sieve. Exhale
breathe nat urally and sift
into a bowl.
"Attention! Lie Hat on
the floor and roll the white
of an egg backward and
forward until it comes to a
boil. In ten minutes re-move
from fire and rub
smartly with a rough
towel. Breathe naturally,
dress in warm flannels,
and serve with fish soup."
Boys will be boys...
"Bethel College" was
"Bethel Academy" in 1927-
a much smaller institution
than the present Bethel
College. Because of its
size, an event such as the
"boy's banquet" was much
more feasible. This was
the way Bethel boys at the
banquet were described:
"They were just as full
of life and pep as they
always are. They were
out for a good time and
they meant to get it. Evi-dently
boys believe that
to have a good time one
must make it. ...Someone
has defined a boy as 'an
appetite with a skin
stretched around it." "
Kansas,
from page 8
It seemed to me only fit-ting
to hear not only the
questions again last Sat-urday,
but this time to
witness the answer, too.
The show did not end with
an altar call, and there
was no five-minute spot
for Livgren to tell the
crowd that God has a plan
for each person's life. But
is was an evening 'par ex-cellence'
in which I saw a
band, Kansas, dedicated
to contributing good mu-sic
and, most of all, a light,
shining in the darkness.
Chapel Schedule
March 30-April 3
Monday - Dr. Bruce
Thielman, dean of the
chapel Grove Ctiy Col-lege.
Tuesday - Dr. Bruce
Thielman
Wednesday - Rev. Lee
Eliason, worship ser-vice
Thursday - Gregg
Heinsch, Bethel College
senior
Friday - Dr. Robert Fry-kenberg,
Convocation
by Jay Stuart Russell
Bethel budget: tuition
costs, fuel increases, food
prices. Inflation hits from
all angles in the Bethel Col-lege
and Seminary $13.7
million budget. To under-stand
the costs in operat-ing
a private college and
seminary, the Clarion ex-plores
the top four areas of
revenue and expenditures
within the budget.
Budget, part 3 in a series
of 8.
Student fees of $7.5 mil-lion
seem like an awesome
amount of money for col-lege
and seminary stu-dents
to pay, but the en-couraging
note is this:
Bethel's scholarship in-come
of $1.1 million helps
ease the burden on stu-dents.
Scholarship income
makes up the largest share
of revenue indicated in the
other sources piece, of the
revenue pie graph. More
specifically, Bethel's scho-larship
income is broken
down into these parts: des-ignated
grants, $60,000;
Allis grant, $35,000; work
study federal, $247,500;
work study Minnesota,
$25,500; MHECB (Minne-sota
Higher Education Co-ordinating
Board)' grants
Revenue
—
and scholarships,
$450,000; and the MHEC
institution share,
$250,000. All of this aid
goes directly to the col-lege,
while the seminary
receives only $32,000 in
designated grants.
The $250,000 institution
share from the MHECB is
a payment to the school
based on the number of
recipients of state scholar-ships
and grants. The state
contributes the funds, but
places no restrictions on
how they can be used;
Expenditures
Bethel uses them for schol-arships.
Designated grants are
monies allocated by organ-izations
(such as church-es)
for student scholar-ships.
They differ from
Bethel's endowment fund
in that endowments are
gifts given to Bethel in
which only the interest
may be used. Bethel owns
the principle, but is not
allowed to use it. The
school receives $30,000 in
non-designated gift in-come
from endowment in-terest.
Organized activities
contributed $140,940 to the
miscellaneous revenue,
which comes from ticket
sales in the athletics, dra-ma
and music depart-ments.
Athletic events con-tribute
$6500; drama,
$7200; women's choir,
$8080; male chorus,
$5260; band, $3260; and
college choir, the largest
at $93,000. Special events
also included as organized
activities are the Fine Arts
Festival, $2000; academic
see woe 11
The Bethel Male Chorus leaves for an Upper Midwest concert tour today, returning April 1.
Scholarship $ lowers student cost
We asked our readers...
Has the new plus/minus system helped or hurt your GPA, and do you think it's a fair system?
Kathy Femlund, junior: Melody Ho, junior:
Yes, it has helped my It hasn't affected my
GPA, and yes, it is a fair GPA, because I didn't get
system. It can go both any pluses or minuses. I
ways, but for the most think it's fair because it's
part if you work hard it a better assessment of
can help you. what a student actually
does in a class.
Jerry Manus, freshman:
It has probably helped
my GPA, because I got
some C -1-'s, and those
would have just been C's.
Lori Olsen, senior:
It has hurt my GPA. I
think grading is an inac-curate
method of learn-ing,
so naturally I think
the plus/minus system is
inaccurate as well.
Leann Kicker, junior:
The plus/minus system
has hurt my GPA. It is an
unfortunate change in the
system, as it tends to cre-ate
more competition in
this already competitive
school. Students may be-come
less helpful to one
another, in pursuit of the
almighty grade.
Paul Otto, senior:
Yes, I think it's fair. It
has probably helped my
GPA. Grades are so com-petitive—
it's good be-cause
it tells you where
you are in comparison to
other students.
by Jay Stuart Russell
photos by Doug Berkey
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Page 10
Books list internship and summer job opportunities
by Jay Stuart Russell
How would you like to
work this summer at Mo-kuleia,
a church camp on
the north shore of Oahu,
or at Sperry Chalet, high
in the mountains of Glac-ier
National Park, or work
as an intern in a public
relations firm in New
York, or at a theatre corn-pany
in California?
For a small investment
you may find just what
you're looking for in two
books published by Wri-ter's
Digest Books: 1981
Internships and 1981 Sum-mer
Employment Direc-tory
of the United States.
In its 30th year of pub-lication,
the employment
directory offers job infor-mation
supplied directly
by the employer. The book
is divided in two parts,
the first of which offers
hints on how to apply for
a summer job, write a re-
1191131 AM■oonrktlolaajz.
sume, prepare for an in-terview
and tips on what
employers look for in ap-plicants.
The bulk of the book
lists names and addresses
of employers, along with
information on types of
positions, salaries, em-ployment
dates, how to
apply and whether the
employer offers room and
board. Some employers
even list fringe benefits,
such as transportation al-lowances,
bonuses, home
cooked meals and, in some
cases, college credit.
The listings are grouped
according to state and fur-ther
divided into job cate-gories,
including business
and industry; government;
resorts, ranches, restau-rants
and lodging; sum-mer
camps, summer thea-tres;
national parks; and
commercial attractions.
The summer camps cate-gory
is one of the largest.
The employment direc-tory's
big plus is that the
employers listed are ser-iously
and actively look-ing
for summer help, hav-ing
indicated a desire to
be included in the book.
Offering 15,000 on-the-job
training opportunities,
1981 Internships lists po-sitions
for those who seek
experience in a particular
career field. Besides the
advantage of obtaining
college credit, many of the
internships offer salaries
or stipended positions.
Others offer training and
experience as the salary,
by Cathy Schmeltzer
Some may think of a
sabbatical as nothing more
than a leisurely vacation,
but, according to Dean
George Brushaber, that is
a false assumption. The
purpose of a sabbatical is
to enable the faculty to
maintain the scholarship
necessary for effective
teaching. A sabbatical al-lows
teachers to undertake
work which they could not
otherwise accomplish
while teaching.
while a few charge a fee.
The internship is de-signed
as a full-time posi-tion
in .a career field, usu-ally
short-term, ranging
from a few weeks to a few
months. Some positions,
designed for the graduate,
may last a year.
The book lists informa-tion
similar to that given
in the summer employ-
This program keeps the
teachers growing, sharp,
and, most importantly,
able to maintain the high
level of educational excel-lence.
the policy at most
colleges (Bethel included)
allows a full-time teacher
who has served for six
years to apply for a sabba-tical
leave. The applicants
must submit a plan of
what they propose ro do
on their leave.
This plan is screened
very carefully. It must
show promise of benefit-ting
students directly at
the return of the teacher
and be approved by the
board of regents. The
usual sabbatical lasts six
months, but in rare cases
when a full year is needed
the year's leave is granted.
Teachers on sabbatical
continue to receive their
regular salary from Be-
1 hel, unless the sabbat-ment
directory, including
information about a com-pany,
eligibility require-ments,
salary, fringe ben-efits,
as well as informa-tion
on housing. The book
is not arranged by states,
as is the summer employ-ment
directory, but does
have a geographical cross-index.
see page 5
ical lasts a full year. In
that case they only receive
a salary for six months.
The number of teachers
that are allowed to take a
sabbatical is determined
by the amount of money
Bethel has for replace-ments
and the availability
of quality replacements.
Teachers on sabbatical
must also keep in contact
with Bethel by writing
periodically. On return
they are also required to
submit a written report of
their leave to the board of
regents. So, when teach-ers
take a sabbatical it
means they are not lying
on a beach somewhere in
the Caribbean, but on an
assignment perhaps at an-other
university, research-ing
in a lab, writing a
book, producing artwork,
composing music or serv-ing
abroad.
Profs work for sabbaticals
The women's soccer club, coached by Tom Persico, consists of forty women this year. They open
up their season after spring break against Coon Rapids High School.
Controversy enters senate
Bethany Baptist Church
Cleveland and Skillman Avenues, Roseville, Mn
Worship Service at 11:00 AM
Sunday School at 9:30 AM (Special College-age)
Evening Service at 6:00 PM Church Telephone
631-0211 Dr. Millard Erickson
Bethel Seminary Professor
Interim Pastor
BALDWIN PIANO RENTALS
631-9548
Page 1 1
Horn seeks balanced chapels
from page 3
tions have not been chosen
yet. The position of gen-eral
station manager
awaits the decision by
Dean Brushaber about
which department KABY
yoAr_
The El Salvador bill
failed in a roll-call vote,
7 -6. The bill would have
made public a declaration
of support from the Bethel
student association in fa-vor
of U.S. withdrawal
from the situation in El
Salvador. This information
would be noted in letters
to Congress and in the
Minneapolis Tribune.
The bill for allocating
$500 to the cheerleaders
was dropped to only
$200, but failed to pass
even at that lower amount.
The Clarion was allo-cated
$500 to make up
some of the loss incurred
when the budget was cut
over the summer. The
money will help cover
printing costs for the next
issues.
Senate is planning a
field day Ma y 9. The por-lion
of Old Snelling be-tween
Lindy's and Bethel
will be roped off and a
race will be held for peo-ple
who have converted
old beds into moving ve-hicles.
Two team events will
be next in the line-up of
events, a water race on
Lake Valentine and a re-lay
race of some type
across the football field.
The climax will be an
attempt to break a Gui-ness
world record. The
selection of the record has
not yet been made defi-nite.
One possibility is the
record for stuffing people
in a bus.
Senate approved a reso-lution
to begin leasing
and servicing the vending
machines around campus.
Senate estimates the min-imum
profit at $3500. It
hopes to begin operating
the vending machines
some time during April.
The bill passed to esta-blish
a karate club in lieu
of an intermediate PE
class in karate.
Two bills were brought
up and discussed under
new business. One bill
was a request for an allo-cation
of $200 to world
relief for the purpose of
alleviating the starvation
of the Ethiopian refugees
in Somalia.
A bill to end censorship
of artwork was also pro-posed.
The bill includes
the suggestion that a stu-dent
representative be
given voting power on the
administrative committee
that monitors academic
freedom, as well as on the
site commitee.
SENATE ELECTIONS
Senate election results
are in:
Mark Publow, President
Cheryl Thomas, Vice-resident
Publow and Thomas
swept the election with a
strong 56 per cent of the
vote.
by Debbie Anderson
Most students do not
contemplate the origin of
the chapel schedule. It just
happens, right? Not accord-ing
to David Horn, the
assistant to the campus
pastor and the person re-sponsible
for the chapel
schedule. If the schedule
does not evolve from no-thing,
where does it come
from?
Horn said that the cha-pel
schedule comes from a
variety of sources. The Cha-pel
and Spiritual Life com-mittee
made of students
and faculty help to gener-ate
ideas for chapel speak-ers
and programs. Some of
these ideas are then pur-sued
and secured for a
chapel slot sometime dur-ing
the year.
from page 1
dents. Another 30 homes
will be accepted on a type
of waiting list.
"Spruce Up a Senior's
Spring" is a good expe-rience
for both the senior
citizens and the students.
The senior citizens see
some work done they
could not do and have con-tact
with young people.
The Campus Ministries of-fice
and the Wilder Center
have received numerous
calls and cards where the
seniors expressed how
much the service the stu-dents
provided meant to
them in recent years.
They in turn encourage
the students. It is a nice
change of pace from the
normal Bethel routine,
Other sources for cha-pel
are outside people who
request to speak in chapel.
Often these speakers repre-sent
some special interest
group or missions. Horn
said that there is a Bethel
policy concerning speak-ers
who ask to speak at
Bethel. They can not pro-mote
their group or spe-cial
interest unless ap-proved
by Bethel.
Other chapels are re-quired
throughout the
year. For example, some
administration members
have received a slot on the
schedule. Sing and Shares
and SMP chapels are also
guaranteed chapel times.
Faculty sometimes ask
to speak in chapel. Some-times
students ask to
share in chapel. Horn said
so many students would
and the satisfaction that
comes from having help-ed
someone in need is
great. Participants are not
paid, but the senior citi-zens
provide all kinds of
goodies for munching
while working. Students
who drive are given mon-ey
to reimburse them for
gas used.
The Wilder Center has
appreciated Bethel's help
so much in this project
over the last two years
that this year they plan to
invite the newspaper and
television media to cover
the event.
All Bethel personnel —
students, faculty and staff
— can participate 9:30
a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sign-up
like to be in chapel that it
is impossible to use every-one,
although he tries to fit
people in where it is appro-priate.
Convocation speakers
are a final source for cha-pel
speakers. Convocation,
says Horn, "is not a wor-ship
time. Convocation is
separate from chapel."
Horn is not responsible
for convocation, rather a
committee of faculty mem-bers
decide on convocation
topics and speakers. Stu-dents
are welcome to par-ticipate
on this committee.
The most important as-pect
of the chapel is that
there is a balance, said
Horn. "If we have three
speakers in one week, we
try to balance it with a
student chapel or music or
something else," said Horn.
sheets will be posted on
the bulletin board outside
the Campus Ministries of-fice
(LR326). Students
may sign up in groups of
three our four vi individu-ally.
It is a good opportun-ity
for townhouse units or
dorm floors to form
groups to work together.
Students meet in the PE
lounge to receive maps
and instructions on Sat-urday
morning, and then
divide up to go to the
homes. In case of rain,
plan on April 25.
More information about
"Spruce Up a Senior's
Spring" is available from
Suzie Tjernlund or Curt
Hansen in Campus Minis-tries.
Workers put spring in seniors' day
Senior Deb Sension has been very active in both academics and athletics during her four years at
Bethel (photo by Doub Barkey).
Tennis line-up looks strong
Page 12 sports
Sension seeks high goals
by Ellie Abbott
Senior Deb Sension has
been an asset to Bethel,
whether in the biology de-partment,
the training
room or athletic events.
Sension grew up in the
small town of Chenoa, Ill.
While attending Chenoa
High School she was ac-tive
in both volleyball and
spring track for four years.
Sension graduated from
high school in the spring
of 1977. That fall she came
to Bethel to begin a busy,
but rewarding, four years.
When asked why she
chose Bethel, she said, "My
cousins lived in this area
so I had been in the cities
before coming to Bethel. I
liked the location that
Bethel was in and when I
visited Bethel, it seemed
like a friendly place."
Sension began her col-lege
career as a double
major, with concentra-tions
in physical education
and biology. At the end of
her sophomore year, Sen-sion
decided to transfer to
by Wendy Norberg
The women's track team
finished sixth out of eight-een
teams last Friday in
the biggest indoor meet of
the season, the Ole Invita-tional.
Eau Claire pulled
of a two-point win over
host team St. Olaf for the
team trophy.
The Bethel women made
a good showing while also
establishing a number of
school and personal re-
Florida State. After a great
deal of thought, prayer
and some convincing
words from her track
coach, Howie Kellogg, Sen-sion
decided to return. "I
knew I belonged at Bethel,
so I came back," she said.
Sension has been active
in women's athletics since
her freshman year. She
played basketball for four
years and was a forward
on the varsity squad for
three years.
Sension has also partic-ipated
on the track team
for three years, in which
she does the heptathlon.
The heptathlon consists of
seven events: the high
jump, long jump, shot put,
javelin, hurdles, 200-meter
dash and the 800-meter
run.
During her freshman
year Sension participated
on the volleyball and soft-ball
teams and was also
active in intramural vol-leyball.
Sension's career goal is
to be a certified athletic
trainer. This past fall she
cords. The 4x1 lap relay of
Lynn Severson, Jenny and
Danette Burgess and Sher-ri
Lindquist took second
place and set the school
record at 1:25.94.
Captain Severson also
took second place in the
300-yard dash, setting
Bethel's record at 38.09.
She later finished third in
the 60-yard dash, giving
Bethel a 7.28 record in that
event. In the two-mile run
spent many hours in the
training room and on the
football field in prepara-tion.
In order for her to
take the NATA (Nation-al
Athletic Trainer's Asso-ciation)
test, she has to
work with a certified train-er
for 1800 hours. Work-ing
as a trainer last fall
helped her toward this
goal. This fall she hopes to
enter graduate school at
South Dakota State, where
she will finish up her
hours.
In addition to athletic
training, participation in
athletics and a heavy aca-demic
load, Sension is
also a teacher's assistant
for the biology department.
She assists the anatomy/
physiology labs which
meet weekly, and is re-sponsible
to prepare for
each lab session.
Sension has found her
busy college life reward-ing
and looks forward to
pursuing her career goal
as a certified athletic
trainer.
Wendy Norberg lowered
the school record to
11:45.05.
Personal records were
set by Jenny Burgess in
the hurdles, Danette Bur-gess
in the 300, Mary
Shelander in the 400, Ellie
Abbott and Norberg in the
600, Joanne Ferril and Deb
Auty in the 800-meter run.
Olaf's fast track, the fast
competition and a lot of
good encouragement
by Becky Dye
The men's tennis team
has been hard at work
among Bethel's team mem-bers
contributed much to-ward
the improvements
made by so many of the
women.
This week the team has
a meet at Macalester on
Wednesday and will stop
for a meet in LaCrosse,
Wis., Friday, on the way to
Florida for spring break.
After break the outdoor
season begins with a meet
at Gustavus April 4.
practicing at Arden Hills
Tennis Club since interim,
in preparation of the 198,1
season.
Coach Mark Norlander
commented, "We have a
very strong top end of the
line-up this year.
"We took quite a jump
coming into the MIAC two
years ago. In the Tri-State
we held the championship
for 10 years, but our con-ferences
record last year
was 2-7.
"We have more balance
this year and should do
better."
Transfer sophomore
John Lilleberg joined the
team this year. He holds
the 1979 Minnesota state
men's singles title.
Kirk Smith, junior, is
the only returning player.
Seniors Randy Goen, Mike
Kim and Tim Steele will
also compete, along with
junior Mark Reasoner and
sophomores Jeff Nisson
and Mark Johnson.
The indoor season be-gan
March 6 for Bethel
against St. John's Bethel
lost, 9-0. Bethel was also
defeated March 15 by the
Gustavus junior varsity
team, 9-0.
The next match will be
held here at Bethel, March
31 against St. Mary's.
Coach Norlander com-mented,
"They are about
at our level. It should be a
close match and we could
come out on top."
Tracksters place sixth, set records
Men's mile relay lowers record
Tim Huisinga participated in the MIAC indoor track meet last Saturday.
by Ellie Abbott
The men's track team
performed well at the in-door
MIAC conference
meet hosted by St. Olaf
Saturday. The Royals
would have been fourth
out of eight teams if a
team score had been kept.
The Royals brought
home four first-place fin-ishes
and one new school
record in the mile relay.
Senior Paul Otto once
again dominated in the
sprinting events, taking
first in the 176-yard dash
(18.46) and the 300-yard
dash (32.70).
Phil Asay- leaped to a
victory in the triple jump
with a distance of 14.42
meters. Asay also placed
sixth in the long jump,
jumping 6.46 meters.
The mile relay of Tom
Plocker, Dave Jorgenson,
Tim Snyder and Otto,
placed third overall, but
broke the school indoor
record with a time of
3:28.83. St. John's won the
relay, breaking a new field
house record at 3:22.75.
In the 400-meter dash
Bethel's Plocker raced to a
victory with a time of
51.88. Mike Dirks follow-ed
closely behind (52.70)
with a third place finish.
In the 600-meter run Jor-genson
finished second
overall, timed at 1:14.78.
Don Hauser and Jay Van
Loon were fourth and fifth
with times of 1:16.44 and
1:16.61, respectively.
In the high jump Jason
Velgersdyk jumped 6'4"
for a third place. The win-ner
from St. Olaf jumped
6'6".
The men tricksters open
up their outdoor season
the weekend following
spring break.
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Spring Break Trips
Men's and Women's
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Baseball — Texas
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BETHEL COLLEGE
3900 Bethel Drive
St Paul, Minnesota 55112
Thirty-five cents wilt still buy a whole Bethel bagel, provided lost" dishes and silverware
continue to come in (photo by Doug Barkey).
e Clarion. Vol. 56, No. 20
Bethel College, St. Paul, MN
March 20, 1981
Housing lottery out; priority in
by Shari Goddard
Bethel students and em-ployees
returned enough
missing food service dish-es,
glasses and silverware
to hold of the scheduled
March 16 price hike. "Be-cause
students seemed 'to
be making an effort to
return things...we'll give
them credit and hope they
continue," said Wayne
Erickson, director of food
service.
When over $1000 in sil-verare,
dishes and glasses
disappeared this year,
Erickson announced a ten
per cent price increase if
the items were not return-ed
by March 13. "I felt
something had to be done,"
he said. Erickson added
that some loss is normal
each year, but "this year
more stuff has disap-peared.
It really got to be
frustrating."
A return table was set
up outside the food-card
coordinator's office for
those who found "lost"
items in their rooms or
offices. When the return
effort started, food ser-vice
had three dozen
glasses, one rack. As of
last Firday, students and
by Patty Sutton
Major changes have
been made in the place-ment
system, the lease and
the blocking off of certain
areas of housing for spe-cial
students. "By offering
as much choice of room-mates
and rooms as pos-sible,"
said Rod Long, di-rector
of housing, "the
community that has deve-loped
among students in
the residences can be pre-served
and built upon
from year to year."
Long said that the great-er
flexibility of choice will
help students to take great-er
pride in the physical
facilities and thus lower
others had returned ap-proximately
seven racks.
Other items were also re-turned.
According to Erickson,
some of the items were
taken carelessly—brought
to rooms and forgotten.
People took other items
deliberately. The price
raise was to "make a point
that we couldn't put up
with it," said Erickson.
"We have to make ends
meet in food service. Be-thel
probably operates on
one of the smallest food
service budgets for a col-some
unnecessary main-tenance
costs.
The lottery system has
been abolished in favor of
a system where students
choose the apartments in
which they will live and
are granted their choices
according to present hous-ing,
their class at Bethel
and then on a first-come-first-
served basis.
March 30, applications
will be taken for those
who wish to remain in
their current residence for
the next school year.
Those who wish to be
housed in the same build-ing
but a different apart-ment,
will turn in their
applications a week later.
lege its size in the coun-try."
He said irnost col-leges
can not compare
their $1 million food ser-vice
budget to the approx-imately
$700,000 Bethel
spends.
After spring break, Erick-son
and Judy Helman, as-sistant
director, plan to
spend a few days in
dorms, trying to explain
food service to people, "for
people who would like to
know more about it or
who don't understand it
in the first place," Erick-son
said, chuckling.
From this point, the se-lection
is according to the
students' school classifica-
_ tions, from seniors to spe-cial
students, and based
on the lowest-priority
rank in each roommate
grouping.
If a housing application
is rejected because it is
improperly filled out, or
because the apartment or
townhouse chosen has
been taken, the applicants
will have to make changes
and resubmit their appli-cations.
A list of housing
which has been designated
will be posted near the
student affairs office.
Housing for married stu-dents
is new this year.
The one-bedroom apart-ments
in three Silvercrest
buildings: 2030, 2060 and
2090, are reserved for cou-ples.
Most of the campus
housing, excluding Arden
Village East B4, 5 and 6; C;
D; E and F4, 5 and 6, are
for freshmen only.
Long has also worked
on revising the lease, to
make it more clear and
concise.
Last Monday through
Thursday, March 16-19,
Long conducted a series of
questions and answer ses-sions
in each of the resi-dences
to inform students
about the new housing pro-cedures.
Senior "spruce-up"
springs into action
Food service dish disappearances reappear
The third annual
"Spruce Up a Senior's
Spring" will be held April
11 this year. "Spruce Up a
Senior's Spring" is an out-reach
to senior citizens in
the St. Paul area, using
Bethel students to help do
spring cleaning that they
are unable to do them-selves.
In 1979 the Campus
Ministries Office began
working with the Wilder
Foundation in St. Paul to
develop an outreach that
would help senior citi-zens.
Among other pro-grams,
the Wilder Center
offers daytime activities
for senior citizens who
still are able to live in
their own homes.
For "Spruce tip a Sen-ior's
Spring" the Wilder
Center registers its mem-bers
that have spring
cleaning that they are un-able
to do. Most often this
work is raking the lawn,
changing and washing
storm windows, and mov-ing
furniture indoors to
clean around and behind
it. Bethel students then
supply the manpower to
do the work and the resi-dents
provide all the sup-plies.
Last year, due to a
smaller student turnout
than expected, each car-load
of student volunteers
was assigned to do work
at 3 or 4 homes. This year
to make it go more smooth-ly
30 homes will be gua-ranteed
a group of stu-see
page 11
seriously ought to medi-tate
on Matthew 7:2, "For
in the same way you judge
others, you will be judged,
and with the measure you
use, it will be measured to
you."
I realize that people
such as Steven Judy make
the Bible a difficult book
to live by. Be that as it
may, are we to forgive or
seek revenge on our ene-mies?
see page 3
The Clarion is published weekly
by the,:students of Bethel College.
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Page 2
editorial
Court decisions can eventually backfire
Following a general trend toward active conserva-tism,
many Christians are asking courts to guard and
support their beliefs—as in the fight to put prayer back
in the schools. Since these advocates call on all Chris-tians
to support their attempts, it is important to under-stand
all the implications of the court actions.
Going through the courts may win a short-sighted
goal, but court decisions are two-edged swords. What
we throw at our adversaries they have the legal right to
throw back at us.
For example, with the right to pray in schools comes
the right for prayer to any god. With the teaching of
creation on religious, rather than scientific, grounds,
comes the right to teach other religious beliefs or
practices.
Not long ago, a Christian took the transcendental
"To know that which before us lies in daily life is the
prime wisdom."
—John Milton, from Paradise Lost, 1667
Foresight. If we all had it, perhaps half of our prob-lems
would be solved.
Not all of us are blessed with it—to be expected—but
the tragedy is that in recent years, fewer and fewer
people have possessed this gift. We live in an "eat,
drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die" society.
Look around:
Throughout the 70s the U.S. congress year after year
exceeded the federal budget by billions of dollars.
Why? Because highly influential special interest
groups demanded money, and elected officials did not
want to go on record as opposing funding for minori-ties,
the poor, education, etc. The result? We now have
a budget deficit approaching the one trillion mark, not
to mention the inflation which has significant reduced
the dollar's buying power. (The U.S. federal govern-ment
prints extra money to pay its bills. The law of
supply and demand dictates that when the supply of
money is greater than the supply of goods and services,
its value decreases.)
People are starving in Somalia, India, and other
places around the world. Others have responded by
sending food and medical aid.
Why? For the sake of humanity and compassion. The
result? Lives are saved today, but for every one life
saved today, an additional two or three people will die
from starvation in 20 years. Our feeble attempts to
save the half-billion starving people today will double
the suffering and number of starvation victims two
decades from now.
A married couple decides to rent housing as they feel
they cannot afford to buy.
Why? Interest rates and home prices have made
housing too expensive. The result? They wait five
years and still feel the costs of home ownership are too
high. They have paid for rented housing for five years
and still have nothing to show for it. They could have
been building equity and watched the value of their
investment keep pace with inflation (They could have
rented out part of their home to help pay mortgage
costs.)
Foresight does not mean one should not take risks. It
simply means to realistically consider the future
impact of a decision made now. It is a quality of leader-ship
to reject a popular idea in the present tense, con-sidering
its implications in the future tense. It is a
quality of Christianity not to live for a present world
on earth, but to live for a future world.
Granted, not everything can be predicted. Who
would have guessed 15 years ago that OPEC would
monopolize oil prices, or that Social Security would
begin to run out of money? Still, too many potential
meditation movement to court, claiming it should not be
allowed in schools since it is a religious movement. We
cannot protest other religious teachings in our schools
if our insistence does not include our religion.
Some Christians have asked California court to allow
the teaching of creation. But they made the mistake of
insisting that religious freedom be the grounds. How
can the courts allow creation and deny T.M. on these
same grounds?
There is no simple answer to these questions. Each
citizen has a right to got to the courts to protect his/er
freedom. But when we go, we must look beyond the
simple solutions to the implications of the decision they
demand.
—sg
problems are ignored until it is too late. It seems gaso-line
lines have to reach a certain length, the budget has
to reach a certain deficit, etc. before people look
seriously at the problems at hand.
How serious must a problem get before we do
something?
Thank heaven for the futurists who decided 20 years
ago that Bethel would have to relocate its entire cam-pus,
for those who began enacting legislation to solve
our pollution problems and for others who initiated
programs to limit nuclear arms. May we all have the
foresight to think in the future tense, applying it to
every aspect of our lives.
—jsr
To the Editor: butive justice is, at best,
Just after midnight on an unenlightened interpre-
Monday, March 9, Steven tation of the purpose of
Judy died in the electric law. Legally, society has a
chair in Michigan City, right to demand protec-
Indiana. Although Judy tion, but no right what-was
indeed guilty of rape soever to demand re-and
murder, his execution venge.
was an indictment against
Next, from a moral
justice. While society does standpoint, Judy's execu-have
a right to be pro- tion was a degradation of
tected from felons such as the value of human life.
Steven Judy, there was no Morally abortion is con-legal
or moral justification sidered wrong because is
for his execution. does not regard the hu-
From a legal standpoint, man sanctity of the fetus.
the state of Indiana acted Capital punishment does
in an irresponsible man- not regard the sanctity of
ner. The fact that Judy human life as well. Does
requested the death penal- society have a moral duty
ty was no a valid reason to execute its enemies?
for killing him. For exam- That would be like argu-ple,
if I were to request
ing that society has a right
that a friend of mine shoot
to abort fetuses because
me because I lacked the the baby might be deform-guts
to kill myself, the ed.
courts would never up- Furthermore, Steven Ju-hold
my friend's case. My dy's execution was a par-friend
would indeed be ticular embarrassment to
convicted of murder. the Christian sub-culture
Thus, I contend that the of our society. I suggest
state of Indiana has com- that before we as Chris-mitted
murder. The law tians sit people like Ste-ought
not to be used as a
means of obtaining cold- chair, turn on the juice
ven Judy in the electric
blooded revenge on the and triumphantly claim,
enemies of society. Retri- "He had it coming," we
Opinions expressed on this page are the sole
responsibility of the individual editors.
Futurists avoid future problems with foresight
letters
Death of Judy makes Christian life hard to live
Dona Amann, sophomore, 1981-82 Spire edi- Leanne Kicker, junior, Clarion editor for 1981-
tor (photo by Doug Barkey). 82 (photo by Doug Barkey).
1981-82 media chiefs chosen
by Patty Sutton
Student senate voted
Tuesday on the recom-mendations
for the cam-pus
coordinators and me-dia
chiefs. Leann Kicker
was chosen as Clarion
editor and Dona Amann
was appointed editor of
the Spire.
The recommendation to
accept Lori Droogsma and
Sherwood McKinnis as
the new campus coordi-nators
was rejected. The
senate requested that the
selection committee meet
Notice
Due to spring break,
a tight production bud-get
and other semi-regular
occurrences,
the Clarion will not re-sume
its regular pro-duction
schedule until
April 24. We will see
our readers before then
in an irregular pro -
duc tion.
Page 3
To the Editor:
" Ultimately, we've got
to be Christian," stated
Don Belton, assistant pro-fessor
in the social work
department. The issue in
question is racial integra-tion,
or rather the lack of
it at Bethel College.
I was recently made
Aware of some disturbing
statistics. The total num-ber
of minority students
at Bethel comprise less
than 1 per cent of the stu-dent
enrollment. And less
than 10 per cent of these
minority students ever
graduate from Bethel.
How can this be, at a
school that purports "not
to discriminate on the ba-sis
of age, color, ethnic/na-tional
origin, physical han-dicap,
race, or sex...?"
There is little doubt that
we have a problem. Either
minority students avoid
Bethel, or the ones who
To the Editor:
Bethel's environment
tends to produce sterile,
"cookie-cut ter"* Christ-y.
One cause of such
is the infamous LIFE-STYLE
• STATEMENT.
The lifestyle statement
firstly invites only Chris-tians
to attend Bethel, and
thereby neglects an out-reach-
for-Christ oppor-tunity
unique to a Chris-tian
liberal arts college for
the agnostic, potential Be-thel
students who are
searching for an answer.
At the Bethel oasis, this
outreach opportunity,
unique to a Christian lib-eral
arts professor, is de-nied;
minds are being
wasted.
If the lifestyle state-ment
were to read, "Bethel
invites any prospective
liberal arts students who
wants to be challenged by
Christianity," then per-haps
Bethel would be-come
more of an outreach
to the collegiate "world."
True, there would pro-bably
be more radicals
and a worldly sector on
campus, but Christ him-self
commanded us to be
in the world and yet not of
it. In other words, it is
intrinsic to dynamic
Christianity to be exposed
to the "real world," i.e.
non-Christian people.
come have a difficult time
making it through.
I was in a group looking
into this problem. We in-terviewed
Don Belton be-cause
of his acquaintance
with the problem and his
participation in a task
force to deal with it. He
said that many prospec-tive
minority students are
warned by former stu-dents
about the subtle
signs of predjudice and
cultural misunderstand-ings
that occur here. Those
students who do come find
the warnings to be true.
Prejudice does happen
at Bethel. It can be as sim-ple
as not talking to a
minority students, or as
crude as a valentine from
the KKK. (This happened
here.) Even class lectures
may be unconsciously
geared for only white, mid-dle-
class Baptist Scandi-navians.
These classes can
Bethel is not the "real"
world! Christ was a rebel
and a minority in - a hostile
environment. Bethel's en-vironment
is just the op-posite.
One may point with tre-pidation
at the Hamline,
Gustavus, etc. campuses
to warn of impending
doom. But who really
knows where they falter-ed,
or if they really did.
Just because they may
have failed doesn't mean
we should hide cowardly
in our corner of the world,
for this is not spirit of
Christ.
It is very possible that
with a dynamic and dedi-cated
Christian faculty
and staff, Bethel could be-come
a battleground for
Christ, rather than an oa-sis
of Christian apathy.
And if Bethel were to fal-ter
under such conditions,
then the present lifestyle
statement is a meaning-less
and condescending fa-cade
of ethics (rather than
a statement of a student
faith), because the individ-ual
student's faith would
have been rendered false
in the face of a "real world"
challenge.
Doug Newman
P.O. 177
*Greek ranSla tion—no-dos
onihros nodos
he very confusing to some-one
from a different cul-ture.
One young woman
dropped out the week be-fore
finals last year be-cause
she had difficulty
understanding the materi-al
in the way it was pre-sented.
The tragic aspect is that
some of these students
who don't make it here
blame themselves, consid-ering
themselves to be fail-ures.
How can we as a
Christian community al-low
this to happen to our
brothers and sisters in Je-sus?
Although the problem
cannot be solved over-night,
there are steps that
we as a student body can
take to alleviate it.
First, we must work to
create an environment that
is welcoming and warm to
everyone, not just those of
our own race and culture.
Specifically this means to
treat our minority stu-dents
as people, brothers
and sisters having the
same Lord.
We must strive to elim-inate
the subtle acts of
prejudice that we may
even hardly be aware of.
Most of all we need to
pray that God will mold
Bethel into a community
where all Christians can
learn, regardless of their
race and culture. Until this
happens, we do not reflect
the wonderful variety in
the body of Christ and
cannot call ourselves a
Christian school As Don
Belton said, the solution is
that "Ultimately, we've got
to be Christian."
Daryl Morrissey
Prejudice subtle, but present
Lifestyle cause of
cookie-cutter life
again and bring whom-ever
it recommends the
second time to the entire
senate body for a short
interview before it votes
again.
The problem with the
selection of the campus
coordinators was that the
evaluation process was
being called into question.
from page 2
Unfortunately, all of us
are the long-run losers in
the execution of Judy. Win-ston
Churchill stated,
"The mood and temper of
the public with regard to
the treatment of crime and
criminals is one of the
most unfailing tests of the
civilization of a country."
For this reason, I contend
that by condoning the kil-ling
of Judy our society
and our Christian sub-cul-ture
in particular have tak-en
a large step backwards.
In closing, I would like
Some senators were con-cerned
about the lack of
information about the
choices prior to voting.
Others had heard reports
from constituents about
the choices and wished to
look into the matter fur-ther
before assenting.
Roster and KABY posi-see
page 11
to point out the fact that I
am not defending Steven
Judy. He needed to be pun-ished,
but certainly not
murdered. Further I am
not a bleeding-heart lib-eral
who wants to come to
the aid of every psychotic
killer in this country.
However, I do contend
that the manner in which
the state of Indiana hand-led
the Steven Judy case
was a crude, barbaric and
uncivilized rendition of
"justice."
1
Frank La Tona
MarchP 90. 109 81
Forty adults over 60 participated in Bethel's Elderhostel program last summer (photo by Doug
Barkey).
Minnesota Governor Albert Quie announced a $1.7 million
increase in the scholarship and grant program January 27.
Page 4
Over-60 find Elderhostel rewarding
The Minnesota Associ-ation
of Private College
Students (MAPCS) has
opened the first phase of a
letter writing campaign in-tended
to address the
state and federal changes
in student financial aid,
programs which threaten
to force one out of every 10
students out of college.
The MAPCS has an-nounced
that is will soli-cit
letters from its 35,000
member constituency ad-dressing
proposed cut-backs
in the Minnesota
State Scholarship and
Grant Program.
January 27, 1981, Gov-ernor
Albert Quie an-nounced
he was request-ing
only a $1.4 million
increase in the scholar-ship
and grant program.
The Minnesota Higher Ed-ucation
Coordinating
Board, a state advisory
agency, have requested a
$37 million increase to
maintain current $1,400
maximum grant, compen-sate
for inflationary rises
in college costs over the
past year and provide
awards to eligible stu-dents
in the increasing
pool of students seeking
aid.
It is estimated by the co-ordinating
board that un-derfunding
the program
by nearly $16 million over
the next two years will
result in as many as
12,600 students being re-fused
aid and an addition-al
9,000 students being de-nied
the opportunity to
have their applications re-viewed
for eligibility due
to lack of funds.-To assure
these students an award
of some size, the program
would be forced to reduce
each of the awards made
by Joanne Watkins
Bethel is just one of 22
Minnesota colleges and
universities participating
in Elderhostel '81. Elder-hostel
is a nationwide
summer college program
for persons over 60.
"I personally think it is
the most exciting thing on
campus all year," said
Dean Tricia Brownlee. "It
is super in some small
way to serve the older
people and the commun-ity,"
she continued. About
40 men and women will
move to Bethel July 19 for
a week of "living and
learning."
Activities for the older
courage private college
students to write to their
own legislators and those
on key state committees
in reference to the scho-larship
and grant pro-gram.
As a part of the let-ter
drive, MAPCS will
sponsor a inter-school
competition allowing it to
determine how many let-ters
have been sent to
state legislators regard-ing
the necessity of the
state scholarship and
grant program.
Students interested in
assisting with the letter
drive's education effort
are asked to call the
MAPCS state office at
(612) 641 -2455 or to con-tact
their student govern-ment
leaders.
by Patty Sutton
"The Christian Con-science
and the Payment
of War Taxes" was the
topic of a meeting held
Monday, March 9. Min-nesota
War Tax Resisters
presented the meeting,
sponsored by the People
of Faith Peacemakers lo
inform the public about
their views.
People from varied back-grounds
with different in-tensities
of belief met to
discuss their ideas, rally
support and suggest pos-sible
individual response.
One man at the meeting
said, "It would be immor-al
and insane to pay war
tax, because it is hiring
someone to do something
I would not do myself."
It is estimated that 33.1
adults include field trips,
cultural events and cam-pus
activities. The Como
Conservatory, the Muse-urn
of Natural History,
the Minnesota Symphony,
a Twins' game and a ban-quet
at the end of the week
are some of the activities.
planned.
The focal point of the
week is the classes offer-ed.
Each of the participat-ing
schools offers three
courses covering a broad
interest scope. Classes to
be taught at Bethel include
"Artists and You: Learn to
See What They See"
taught by art instructor
Barbara Glenn. A course
entitled "Moses and Mor-ality"
will be taught by
Dr. Arthur Lewis. "Life in
the Thirties: The Way it
Was" will be taught by Dr.
Roy Dalton.
The classes are held
every day for one to two
hours. They do not have
exams or required home-work.
Though they do not
receive grades, last year
there was a graduation
ceremony. Wearing Beth-el
frisbees as their caps,
the students received dip-lomas
as "Masters of
Youthful Thinking."
"I enjoyed all of the pro-gram:
meeting people and
courses and going out on
the trips," said Carl Rad-ke,
Elderhostel partici-pant.
He and his wife Mar-ian
participated with 40
other older adults last
summer.
The Radkes, both re-per
cent of federal income
tax goes into the fund for
military expenditures.
Some people have pushed
the percentage as high as
49.9 by including past mil-itary
expenses and the
nuclear arms race.
Another problem dis-cussed
was the federal
excise tax on telephone
services. Some of the mo-ney
pays for military ex-penses
and people against
war tax refuse to pay that
portion.
The majority of war tax
objectors do not keep the
taxes they withhold. In-stead,
they channel it into
the World Peace Tax Fund
or the Minnesota Alterna-tive
Fund, which sponsor
grants for groups work-ing
on peaceful projects.
In the Twin Cities area,
the movement has 200 peo-tired,
came to Bethel for
the classes. "I appreciated
the warmth of the people
at Bethel," commented
Mrs. Radke. Mr. Radke
said he felt this warmth
was due partially to the
Christian environment.
He said the close contact
with the professors made
him feel at home.
"My most rewarding ex-periences,"
said Dr. Lew-is,
who also taught last
year, "were there class re-sponses."
He said their
minds were young, their
interest was obvious and
they were very alert. "If
anything there is height-ened
motivation," com-mented
Dr. Lewis as he
compared them to college
students.
"It keeps you in touch
with people and your
mind active," said Mr.
Radke. "It is very infor-mative
and good. You
learn something new," he
added.
The cost for the week is
$140 which includes
room, board, tuition and
most activities. The hos-telers
stay in the dormi-tory
and eat in the cafete-ria.
"The only complaint,"
said Brownlee, "is that
they wish there were kids
around."
Registration forms and
a catalog may be obtained
by telephoning Minneso-ta
Elderhostel at 376-2704.
Details about the Bethel
program may be secured
from Dr. Tricia Brownlee,
638-6367.
pie on its mailing list, at
least 60 people withhold-ing
federal income tax
and 150-200 resisting the
telephone tax.
One man said, "I won-der
if Jesus ever said, 'I'd
like to be the one through
whom the world is re-deemed,
but I don't want
to go to the cross. Do we
ask this?"
tinder the Reagan ad-ministration,
the move-ment
expects a stronger,
more solidified response
to tax resistance.
One way to avoid the
war tax problem -is to fill
out a W-4 withholding
form and pay for taxes
collectively each year.
That eliminates automatic
tax withholding and gives
the individual more free-dom
of choice about how
much lax to pay.
to the current 46,000 recip-ients
by an amount yet to
be determined.
Each participant in the
program is required to put
$700 per year toward their
tuition costs under the eli-gibility
formula. In addi-tion,
only 85 per cent of
the student's educational
costs (tuition, room and
board) is used to deter-mine
eligibility.
The MAPCS letter drive
begins Wednesday, March
18. It is intended to en-
MAPCS begins first phase of campaign
War Tax Resisters present views
The Rev. Bruce Thiel-man
will speak in cha-pel
March 30-31. Thiel-man
is dean of chapel
at Grove City College.
An alumnus of Grove
City College, Thielman
devotes more of his
time to college, univer-sity
and seminary min-istries
than to any
other area of service.
He has spoken at Be-thel
in the past.
Thielman earned his
B.A. at Westminster
College and his B.D. at
Pittsburg-Xenia Theo-logical
Seminary in
1959. He recieved a
Doctor of Divinity de-gree
from Grove City
College in 1972. In 1973
he was given the Doc-tor
of Letters degree by
Sterling College, Sterl-ing,
Kans. Thielman
was born in Pittsburg,
Penn. in April of 1933.
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Eight blood donors earn pins
school German students
and their teachers are ex-pected
to attend the con-vention,
according to Su-zanne
Jebe, program spe-cialist
in modern and clas-sical
languages for the
Minnesota Department of
commitment and concern Of the 256 donors ac-for
people of the area. cepted, several received
This year Ruth Oliver pins from the Red Cross
and Laurie Lindahl coor- to recognize that over a
dinated the drive. Lindahl certain period they each
and Oliver worked hard have given a gallon of
to make the blood drive a blood. The following indi-success
and further the viduals received pins:
good standing and repu- Deborah Ross, Elizabeth
tation of Bethel with the Weinberg, Laura Phillips,
Red Cross. Keith Bergstrom, Ann Rob-bins,
Mike Bryan, Bo Bur-
Concern mounted ear- ridge and Kim Mullin.
her in the week as the
number of people to work
and to give progressed
slowly. But the donors
and the workers came
through and made the
drive successful.
board of regents, who
make the final decision.
"We then hope to an-nounce
the candidate well
ahead of the annual meet-ing
in June," said Healy,
"so the public will have a
chance to get to know the
candidate before he is
presented in Omaha."
Mum's the word concerning next president
The new president will
work with Lundquist for
all of next year, until
Lundquist leaves in next
June. After leaving Bethel,
Dr. Lundquist will have
served his 28th year at the
The committee presents helm of Bethel College
and Seminary.
by Tim Wilbee
Who the next president
of Bethel College and Sem-inary
will be may be the
best kept secret in the
Baptist General Confer-ence
(BGC). Due to Dr.
Carl Lundquist's impend-ing
retirement the need to
find a new chief executive
arose. BGC chief execu-'
tives must retire at 65. A
search committee was
formed last year in re-sponse,
responsible for
presenting a candidate in
time for the BGC annual
meeting in Omaha, Neb.,
this June.
The board of regents
formed the committee,
which consists of two fa-culty
members (one from
both the seminary and the
from page 9
computer, $5400; and Wil-derness
Challenge (course
offered in the summer for
freshmen), $10,240.
• Some of the other less
significant sources of reve-nue
include traffic fines,
$2500; tuition deposit for-from
page 10
Listings are arranged
according to college dis-ciplines,
including intern-ships
in business and in-dustry,
newspapers, broad-casting,
education, gov-ernment,
health and medi-cine,
law, museums, per-forming
and visual arts,
college), four regents and
one person selected from
the constituency.
Robert Luther, from San
Diego, Calif. chairs the
committee. He was in the
Twin Cities last Thurs-day
and Friday to inter-view
candidates. "We
have narrowed the list of
candidates to eight now,"
he said, "and would like to
narrow that number to
two or three. However,"
he added, "who these can-didates
are is extremely
confidential."
Nominations for the po-sition
were solicited from
within the conference (in-cluding
the Bethel cam-pus)
and also from out-side.
The committee care-fully
researched all can-didates.
Intensive inter-feitures
$2500; rent late
fee (from seminary) $1000,
LRC fines, $1500; copy ser-vice
(cash sales), $2500;
and an administrative al-lowance
from the govern-ment
for administering the
NDSL, SEOG and work
study programs, $43,000.
science and research, and
social service organiza-tions.
The book sells for
$7.95.
Both books may be pur-chased
at local book-stores,
or by writing to
Writer's Digest Books,
9933 Alliance Road, Cin-cinnati,
Ohio 45242.
After much work and
pleading for donors and
workers, the spring Be-thel
blood drive became a
reality last Thursday in
the gym. The spring and
fall drives give Bethel
students the chance to
reach out to the commu-nity
and give the gift of
life.
Past encounters be-tween
the Red Cross staff
and the Bethel commu-nity
have given the school
a gOod reputation with
the Red Cross and the en-tire
metro area. This is just
one way that students, fa-culty
and staff show a
by Ginger Hope
Bethel's campus is the
site of the 1980-81 conven-tion
of the Minnesota As-sociation
of Students of
German (MNASG) April
4 - 5.
Several hundred high
dates' Christian character
is looked at; their reputa-tion
and commitment to
Christ is examined."
While the candidates do
not necessarily have to be
members of the BGC, they
must be compatible with
conference interests.
Healy assisted Luther
in last week's interviews,
and they will present their
findings to a full commit-tee
meeting March 26.
The committee hopes to
reduce the number of can-didates
to two or three.
their final selection to the
The next blood drive
comes in October. The
job of coordinating such
a task falls in the hands of
Laurie Lindahl and Steve
Jarabeck.
Education.
Jebe said the program
emphasizes "having fun
within the context of a
learning experience." The
weekend will feature- a va-riety
of topics, from Ger-man
arts and crafts to soc-cer.
German students from
Bethel will host the group.
The keynote speaker for
the convention is Dr. Ger-hard
Weiss, professor of
German at the University
of Minnesota. Also on the
program are a Sunday
morning church service in
German, a student variety
show and guided tours of
the campus by upper-level
German students from
Bethel.
Students will stay in the
college and seminary gym-nasiums
and eat in the
cafeteria.
Saturday evening, a trio
of German musicians will
entertain Bethel students
and visitors during the
supper hour.
viewing has been part of
this process.
Jerry Healy, the college's
committee member, des-cribed
the criteria deve-loped
for the ideal candi-date.
A solid educational
background and theologi-cal
training of some sort is
desirable to enable the fu-ture
president to address
seminary interests.
The committee also
seeks administrative ex-perience
in education and
an understanding and
commitment to liberal
arts schooling. "And,"
said Healy, "the candi-
Bethel welcomes German students
Dale Johnson, associate professor of art, will lead an art tour of Europe, designed especially for
non-art majors (photo by Tom Twining).
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Bonita Wahl, of "Thursday's at 3" fame, continues with the now
expanded group, called Aptix (photo by Tom Twining).
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Tour plans artful Europe
arts education, followed
by a mock lecture given
by Dr. Jim Johnson, pro-fessor
of history.
They had the option of
tracks A, B and C, de-signed
to include chapel,
classes, a mock class and
. additional times from
1:15-1:45 in the afternoon
to meet with professors
and coaches of their
choice.
Students were encour-aged
to attend classes of
interest from a class sche-dule
made available dur-ing
registration. The class
schedule offered D mo-dule,
11:10-12:00 and E
module, 12:10-1:10 as a-vailable
times to attend
classes. It listed classes
all the way from art and
biology to philosophy and
theatre arts, meeting dur-ing
these times.
The afternoon closed
with a session in the cafe-teria
involving a time
when three current Bethel
students, Jeff Westund,
Cynthia Pennington and
Cheryl Austring, shared
some thoughts about Be-thel.
They told what was
available as far as student
by Lorelei J. Markson
Optics iap-tiks / n. p1.1:
properties relating to vi-sion
or the eye.
A few arts students at
Bethel have a vision.
Theirs is called Aptix /
ap-tiks / n. 1: A group of
students who see a. the
need to encourage one an-other
in the visual arts. b.
the need to discuss their
own art and the art of oth-ers.
c. the opportunity to
expand their awareness of
art in the surrounding
by Jay Stuart Russell
Visit to the European
art treasures of Paris, Flor-ence
and Venice are just a
few of the stops planned
in Bethel's summer course,
"The Visual Arts in Eur-ope."
Dale Johnson, asso-ciate
professor of art, will
lead the tour, which is list-ed
as a creativity balance
course and worth one Beth-el
credit.
Students will fly round-trip
on a chartered jet from
Minneapolis to Paris, leav-ing
May 27 and returning
activities and social life,
as well as emphasizing the
need to be prayerful in
making the decision to at-tend
Bethel. Also Sharon
Worthington, director of
financial aid, discussed
the option of financial aid
and encouraged students
to check into this. She
mentioned that 85 per
cent of the students cur-rently
enrolled at Bethel
receive some source of
financial aid.
Most of the high school
students that participat-ed
in the campus visit day
had made the decision to
attend Bethel in the fall of
81. The general prospec-tive
student reaction was
positive toward Bethel;
they felt very welcome
and found Bethel students
friendly and helpful. The
classroom experience was
helpful in getting a taste
of the daily college life,
although a number of stu-dents
felt that a one-day
session was not enough
time to get to know the
students or the college.
This is only one out of 10
different recruiting em-phasis
days.
community.. d. a unique
time and place to consider
what it means to be both a
Christian and an artist.
As an offspring of last
semester's "Thursday's at
3," begun by faculty mem-ber
Bonita Wahl, Aptix is
the art students' baby. The
time, Thursday at 3 p.m.,
and the place, the art gal-lery,
remain unchanged.
The group focuses on
encouraging individuals to
nurture their creativity in-dependently
of the class-
June 19. Cost for the tour
is $1500.
"The tour will be espe-cially
built to introduce
non-art majors to the rich
heritage so- readily evident
in these major art centers
in Europe," Johnson said.
He stressed that students
do not need an art back-ground
to take the course.
Johnson will perform a
dual role as the tour's ar-tist
guide. Course work
will involve lecture-tours,
discussions, readings and
a personal journal, but "it
will not be all work," John-son
added. "Sight-seeing,
bartering in European
shops, people-watching
and just enjoying spring
in Europe will fill the after-room
and hopes to pro-mote
unity among art stu-dents
so that they can sup-port
one another in their
efforts. They hope to do
this in a number of ways.
Thursdays they will dis-cuss
different topics im-portant
to individual art
students and their work,
as well as those topics
currently under discus-sion
in the art world in
general. They may view
and discuss films and the
art work of fellow si u-noons
of the tour:: he said.
The group will travel by
motorcoach in Europe,
staying in student hous-ing
or economy class ho-tels.
Breakfast and dinner
is included in the tour's
cost.
A tentative itinerary for
the tour includes stops in
six European countries:
France, Italy, Switzerland,
Austria, West Germany
and the Netherlands. Mu-seums
and Cathedrals in
the tour include Chartres.
Versailles, Notre Dame,
the Louvre and the Uffizi
and Pitti Palace in Flor-ence.
Stops at the graphic
design centers in Basel,
Switzerland are also on
the agenda.
dents or faculty. In addi-tion
to the Thursday ses-sions,
the members plan
trips to galleries, exhibits,
films and other areas of
interest.
They will try to keep all
those involved informed
about art events via a pub-lication
or bulletin board.
In this way they hope to
create an awareness
among the art students
and to inspire individuals
to commitment and con-viction
in their own work.
by Mary Swisher
If you noticed unfamil-iar
faces around campus
this past Friday, it might
have been due to the 200
prospective students who
visited Bethel Friday,
March 13. Bethel had its
Spring campus visit day
for prospective students,
reaching students from
up to 150 miles away.
The day began with re-gistration
at 9:45 a.m. and
ended with an afternoon
panel discussion at 2:30.
Events were planned and
organized by Steve Whit-taker,
recruitment coordi-nator,
and Phil Kimball,
director of admissions, to
enable those interested to
experience a typical col-lege
day at Bethel. Se-lected
Bethel students
served as hosts and host-esses,
giving tours and
taking the students to
chapel, classes and lunch.
The purpose for the
visit day was to get stu-dents
on campus and help
them get the feel for aca-demic
life. The prospec-tive
students could choose
to attend a sample class
which dealt with the pur-pose
of a Christian liberal
Campus visit day primes prospective students
Baby Aptix nurtures creativity
free education. With the
cost of Bethel rising and
my eight-year program it
was going to cost me a
fortune.
the job and think that
what you do won't matter.
If you and enough of your
friends think of others
first instead of yourselves,
"O.K., I've made my
choice. I want a new car
and free education. How
about a trip around the
world also?"
"Fine, your first two
wishes are granted. Now
I'll take you on that trip
around the world. Follow
me."
I expected the best trip
of my life. Our first stop
was El Salvador. I saw a
war-torn country with
people killing each other. I
wanted to leave.
We then went to Cam-bodia
where I saw people
starving and dying. We
left there, but it didn't mat-ter
where we went. Each
place was just as terrible
as the last. I felt so help-less.
"Mulligan, I want to do
something to help. Grant
me another wish," I said.
"Sorry, You have used
your wishes on yourself.
But don't look at the size of
the job might be accom-plished."
I awoke suddenly. What
a dream! I thought I had to
be too anxious for spring
break trip to have a weird
dream like that. Let's see, I
need to find my swimsuit.
I'm sure I'm going to need
it down in the Bahamas. I
have to be sure to bring....
Too often we are willing
to do things for others but
at what point are we wil-ling
make sacrifices? We
put stipulations on what
we will do. Sure, I'll give
or help, but not until I get
my new car or my new
stereo. The job is big, but
workers are scarce. It's
time for all of us to make
the job smaller.
But the desire to work
has to come from the heart.
No one can make anyone
else do anything. Let's not
use up all of our "wishes"
on ourselves.
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Wish for others as you would wish for yourself
rights too. Don't I get a pot
of gold or something like
that?"
"Well it used to be that
way," he said, reminis-cing,
"but because of the
price of gold we gave that
up. Now we offer three
wishes instead. So, what
do you want?"
Millions of things raced
through my mind, but, be-cause
I was a rationalist I
first thought of a new car
to replace my old rust
heap. I then considered a
by Brice S. Russell
St. Patrick's Day. What
a strange day, I thought to
myself as I jogged around
the Bethel campus. It sure
was a great feeling to be
up at six in the morning to
see God's beauty. But I
though it was ironic to see
brown everywhere, be-cause
the St. Patrick's Day
color is green.
All of a sudden I heard a
rustle in the woods.
Thoughts of muggers,
weirdos and who-knows-what
raced through my
mind. I squinted to try and
see what it was. It came
closer, and I really started
to panic.
After I saw the size of
the thing, I was not so
afraid, I yelled, "What are
you?" The thing, a sawed
off tiny little man in a
green suit, peered at me.
He took off running as
fast as his little legs would
go. Since I had some track
experience (I had to run
the mile for a P.E. compo-by
Ted Lewis
Imagine a nickel with only one side. How about a
one-sided door or ID card? Impossible, isn't it? Perhaps
you could paint them on canvas and see only one side,
but without two sides those objects could never by
handled.
Similarily, one-sided spirituality has no depth and is
viewed only on the surface. In the context of American
Christianity, we have tended to stock our houses and
hotels on a spiritual monopoly of good feelings. "If you
have faith, things will go smoothly." Consequently, the
dark side of rough struggles has been banished from
the real estate of spirituality.
One-sided spirituality refers to pursuing positive
experiences in life by preventing negative experiences
from playing a necessary role in one's growth. The
previous article on fixes and the story both showed our
proneness to cover over our personal problems rather
than admit them and work through them. This article
extends this issue in the light of American Christian-it
y.
Products to buy. Entertainment to see. Gatherings to
attend. Sex. Vacations. Parties. Experience. Experi-ence.
Experience. Our culture bows to the gods of grati-fication.
And no wonder the competition is so great:
everything guarantees a good experience.
Amid this sea of emotional appeals, American Chris-tianity
echoes the same line to stay afloat. "Listen! We
also guarantee full satisfaction!" In many cases, the
meat of Christianity has -been boiled down to "what's
in it for me?" At extreme, we are parasites feasting on
our 'pie in the sky' on earth in order to get high off it.
Me-Christianity: I'll cite examples from my own life.
Bible reading and prayer: crutches to hobble over my
guilt with instant inspiration. Generated worship:
spiritual mast urbation that floods me • with fuzzy
warmth. A half-a-dozen or so . "second experiences":
final arrivals that raise me above others. Pat answers:
gold nuggets that impresses my wisdom on others.
All these made me feel smooth and secure! And yet
t hey screened out my weaknesses and insecurity deep
within. I had taken what was good, but wrapped them
around myself. On the surface: super-spirit ualit y! On
the inside: a wounded heart.
This self-centeredness is the mother of one-sided
spirituality. Rough experiences just don't fit into a life
that "should" be filled with good feelings all the time.
And so when those had sharks surface, we see them as
barriers to spirituality instead of bridges. This mind-set
leads us to escape struggles and put on smiling
masks.
Escapism follows a denial of the (lark side of reality.
"Life should be much better than it is." The t wo catego-ries
of escapism (or fixes) are transcendence and div-ersion.
The former alters our slate of consciousness so
that we rise from restlessness to calmness. The latter'
nent), I quickly caught
him. "Where's the fire,
shorty?" I asked him. He
was silent. "Come on," I
urged. "I'm not going to
hurt you."
He finally started to
speak. "My name is Mul-ligan
and I belong to the
International Society of
Leprechauns. Because of
my pledge to the Union, I
am instructed to grant you
three wishes."
"Wait a second there,
Mulligan. I know my
occupies our thoughts with activity so we need not
face our problems.
Similar to physical addictions, spiritual and reli-gious
fixes can make us over-dependent on them for
security. Yet, whether we sponge off of spiritual highs
or busy ourselves in pious activity, we harm ourselves
whenever we run from our dark side rather than con-front
it honestly.
In brief, we depend on experiences to free us from
our personal struggles. I call it "faith in our own faith,"
which banks on earning security. Again, this self-reliance
breeds a surface spirituality which masks
over our dark sides.
Americans are experts at delaying death. Despite the
wonderful benefits of medical technology, however, I
think we are afraid of death. Likewise we are experts
to cover over the pain of daily life. Perhaps we're afraid
of life too, as it is in reality.
That leaves us in quite a paradox with only three
options: 1) suicide; 2) pretend life should be smoother
and better, and live as if it were so; 3) accept life as it is
— imperfect, full of tension, messy, fallen — and not be
afraid. (Warning: most suicides occur with those who
take number two seriously.)
**** ***********
(The fourth article in this series will amplify the
third option above and braid many loose ends together.
Stay tuned.)
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The 45-member Bethel Women's Choir leaves today for a tour in the Pacific Northwest through
April 5.
Errol Tyrone (left), Juan Ramos, a 1980 Bethel graduate, and David Looby perform in the Harmon
Place Players' production of "The Fantasticks."
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Kansas sows music seeds
by T.R. Wilbee
Kansas, one of hard
rock's super-groups, visit-ed
the Twin Cities last
Saturday, playing to a
near-capacity crowd at the
Met Center in Blooming-ton.
The March 14 show
merited special interest on
the part of many rock mu-sic
fans, especially follow-ers
of contemporary Chris-tian
music.
Kerry Livgren, songwri-ter/
keyboardist/guitarist
for the band, made a
splash in the evangelical
Christian world last year
with his conversion and
subsequent solo album,
"Seed of Change." Livgren
has remained with Kan-sas,
and the group releas-ed
an album this winter
entitled "Audio Visions."
An aura of eager antici-pation
greeted Kansas' ar-rival
on stage and resulted
in a standing reception
that lasted through the
first three numbers. Open-ing
the hour-and-a-half set
with the hit "Point of
No Return," the band
played a repertoire that
included most of the "Au-dio
Visions" album plus a
collection of older songs,
including "Dust in the
Wind," "Hold on" and "Par-adox."
A la ser show highlight-ed
the concert, and if the
crowd's reaction was any
indication, Kansas was
every bit as welcome as
their last appearance here
in the summer of 1979. A
standing ovation brought
the band back on stage for
a double encore of "Por-trait"
and the classic, "Car-ry
on Wayward Son,"
which lasted until the
house lights came on, bid-ding
everyone a good-night.
The show exhibited the
philosophical tendencies
and musical ornateness
now expected from Kan-sas.
I was prompted to
consider throughout the
concert that this group
may lend the most cre-dence
to the often lacking
element of art in rock 'n'
roll.
Livgren, Mr. Mellow
personified on stage, be-came
a Christian in July of
1979. He discussed his
new life in a recent inter-view
with Progressive Pa-cer
magazine. He spoke of
his place as a Christian in
the field of rock music and
his desire to lead people to
Christ. "I don't feel like the
Lord's given me the gift of
writing this music and put
a vehicle into my hands—
Kansas has sold nine mil-lion
records and that's sort
of a vehicle to reach peo-ple—
it's not something
that I feel like the Lord
wants me to throw away.
The mild-mannered Liv-gren
sees a need to evan-gelize
to all the world. "I
very much want to be
evangelical," he remarked
in the interview, "That's
what 'Seeds of Change' is
all about—to reach that
huge audience of kids who
listen to rock and roll with
the message, because there
are very few people doing
that." He cited examples
of hundreds of letters from
listeners who claimed to
have been led to the Lord
through his music. His im-mediate
ministry has
brought Dave Hope, bas-sist
for Kansas, to a deci-sion
for Christ.
It is evident in 'Seeds of
Change' that Livgren has
arrived at a point he seems
to have been seeking, judg-ing
from his earlier Kan-sas
material:
I've been here and I've
been there
Seems like I've been
everywhere before
I've seen it all a hun-dred
times
Still I think there
surely must be more.
There is not question
upon examining the lyrics
of his solo album that Liv-gren
is a born-again Chris-tian:
You just can't doubt
the things that you feel
So lift me up, the time
has come to sing
And give up every-thing,
To live for the King
No doubt Livgren falls
suspect to those Chris-tians
who choose to be
judgmental of his involve-ment
with secular rock
music. But he feels called
to continue with the band.
"Before I was a Christian,"
the Pacer article said, "I
would have had no inter-est
in it. So I felt it was
very much God's will and
very necessary to get out
there in that huge secular
music business and pro-claim
the gospel."
see page 9
A new theater company
joins the ranks of the al-ready
sumptuous number
of theatres in the Minnea-polis
area. Opening
March 12 and running
for three consecutive
Thursday-Sunday week-ends,
Harmon Place Play-ers
present "The Fantas-ticks",
the well-known
Skaff and James Larson.
"The Fantasticks" was
chosen because the music
is excellent and the script
is good literature. Those
give actors and technical
people an opportunity to
stretch. Besides, it's
spring. And this play is
about love and growth,
about two young people
who are in love with the
idea of love and the two
fathers who attempt to
arrange their match, about
fate and the realization of
reality. It's a play which
reminds all of us that "love
and destiny can't often be
decided and nothing of
any value in life comes
without a little pain," said
Director Bormann.
Tickets are $4.00 and
reservations can be made
by calling Wendy Ander-son
at 535 -4692, after-noons
and evenings. Show
runs March 12 - 15, 19-22,
26-28 with one Sunday
Matinee, March 22 at 2:30.
Curtain time is 8 p.m.
musical by Harvy
Schmidt and Tom Jones.
Although not yet estab-lished
in the Harmon
Place territory, the corn-pany
plans to draw from a
community thick with ar-tists
and the culturally in-terested.
With Artistic Director
Louise Bormann, Musical
Director Lorna Anderson
and Managing Director
Wendy Anderson pooling
their efforts, the show is
well into its last week of
work. Cast members in-clude
Odd-Tank Nielson,
Juan Ramos (1980 Bethel
graduate), Donna Roberts,
Terry Carlson, David Loo-by,
Errol Tyrone, Theresa
New theatre offers Tantastick' cast
The rock group Kansas performed most of the hits from their album "Audio Visions" at last Saturday's concert in Minneapolis
(photo by Tom Wilbee).
Page 9
From Our
compiled by Jay Russell
They thought
chivalry was
dead then?
From the March, 1927
issue.
Chivalry
While women's issues
today deal with many
facets of women's rights,
women's issues 54 years
ago often tended toward
another direction, as evi-denced
in an article titled
"Chilvary," by Miss Effie
Nelson:
"Perhaps the most out-standing
reason for the
decadence of chivalry is
the want of courtesy. If
you beg to differ with me,
come with me on any
crowded street car. See
the elderly lady hanging
helplessly to the strap
just before a husky able-bodied
man, who sits com-fortably,
watches to see
how long grandma can
keep her balance.
"...Let us imagine, I say,
because it truly taxes the
imagination to see that
which has been declining
ever since that time (the
12th century, "when chi-valry
was at its best") and
is now but a faint gleam in
the distant past."
Effie, if • you thought
chivalry was on the de-cline
then...
An odd dish.
Jokes were a regular
feature of the Clarion in
its early years, in which
the anecdote "An Odd
Dish" toyed with a rela-tively
new invention called
the radio:
"A young bride...asked
her husband to copy off a
radio recipe she wanted.
He did his best, but got
two stations at once, one
of which was broadcast-ing
the morning exercies
and the other the recipe.
This is what he took
down:
"Hands on hips, place
one cup of flour on the
shoulders, raise knees
and depress toes and mix
thoroughly in one-half
cup of milk. Repeat_ six
times. Inhale quickly one-ha
If teaspoon of baking
powder, lower the legs
and mash Iwo hard-boiled
eggs in a sieve. Exhale
breathe nat urally and sift
into a bowl.
"Attention! Lie Hat on
the floor and roll the white
of an egg backward and
forward until it comes to a
boil. In ten minutes re-move
from fire and rub
smartly with a rough
towel. Breathe naturally,
dress in warm flannels,
and serve with fish soup."
Boys will be boys...
"Bethel College" was
"Bethel Academy" in 1927-
a much smaller institution
than the present Bethel
College. Because of its
size, an event such as the
"boy's banquet" was much
more feasible. This was
the way Bethel boys at the
banquet were described:
"They were just as full
of life and pep as they
always are. They were
out for a good time and
they meant to get it. Evi-dently
boys believe that
to have a good time one
must make it. ...Someone
has defined a boy as 'an
appetite with a skin
stretched around it." "
Kansas,
from page 8
It seemed to me only fit-ting
to hear not only the
questions again last Sat-urday,
but this time to
witness the answer, too.
The show did not end with
an altar call, and there
was no five-minute spot
for Livgren to tell the
crowd that God has a plan
for each person's life. But
is was an evening 'par ex-cellence'
in which I saw a
band, Kansas, dedicated
to contributing good mu-sic
and, most of all, a light,
shining in the darkness.
Chapel Schedule
March 30-April 3
Monday - Dr. Bruce
Thielman, dean of the
chapel Grove Ctiy Col-lege.
Tuesday - Dr. Bruce
Thielman
Wednesday - Rev. Lee
Eliason, worship ser-vice
Thursday - Gregg
Heinsch, Bethel College
senior
Friday - Dr. Robert Fry-kenberg,
Convocation
by Jay Stuart Russell
Bethel budget: tuition
costs, fuel increases, food
prices. Inflation hits from
all angles in the Bethel Col-lege
and Seminary $13.7
million budget. To under-stand
the costs in operat-ing
a private college and
seminary, the Clarion ex-plores
the top four areas of
revenue and expenditures
within the budget.
Budget, part 3 in a series
of 8.
Student fees of $7.5 mil-lion
seem like an awesome
amount of money for col-lege
and seminary stu-dents
to pay, but the en-couraging
note is this:
Bethel's scholarship in-come
of $1.1 million helps
ease the burden on stu-dents.
Scholarship income
makes up the largest share
of revenue indicated in the
other sources piece, of the
revenue pie graph. More
specifically, Bethel's scho-larship
income is broken
down into these parts: des-ignated
grants, $60,000;
Allis grant, $35,000; work
study federal, $247,500;
work study Minnesota,
$25,500; MHECB (Minne-sota
Higher Education Co-ordinating
Board)' grants
Revenue
—
and scholarships,
$450,000; and the MHEC
institution share,
$250,000. All of this aid
goes directly to the col-lege,
while the seminary
receives only $32,000 in
designated grants.
The $250,000 institution
share from the MHECB is
a payment to the school
based on the number of
recipients of state scholar-ships
and grants. The state
contributes the funds, but
places no restrictions on
how they can be used;
Expenditures
Bethel uses them for schol-arships.
Designated grants are
monies allocated by organ-izations
(such as church-es)
for student scholar-ships.
They differ from
Bethel's endowment fund
in that endowments are
gifts given to Bethel in
which only the interest
may be used. Bethel owns
the principle, but is not
allowed to use it. The
school receives $30,000 in
non-designated gift in-come
from endowment in-terest.
Organized activities
contributed $140,940 to the
miscellaneous revenue,
which comes from ticket
sales in the athletics, dra-ma
and music depart-ments.
Athletic events con-tribute
$6500; drama,
$7200; women's choir,
$8080; male chorus,
$5260; band, $3260; and
college choir, the largest
at $93,000. Special events
also included as organized
activities are the Fine Arts
Festival, $2000; academic
see woe 11
The Bethel Male Chorus leaves for an Upper Midwest concert tour today, returning April 1.
Scholarship $ lowers student cost
We asked our readers...
Has the new plus/minus system helped or hurt your GPA, and do you think it's a fair system?
Kathy Femlund, junior: Melody Ho, junior:
Yes, it has helped my It hasn't affected my
GPA, and yes, it is a fair GPA, because I didn't get
system. It can go both any pluses or minuses. I
ways, but for the most think it's fair because it's
part if you work hard it a better assessment of
can help you. what a student actually
does in a class.
Jerry Manus, freshman:
It has probably helped
my GPA, because I got
some C -1-'s, and those
would have just been C's.
Lori Olsen, senior:
It has hurt my GPA. I
think grading is an inac-curate
method of learn-ing,
so naturally I think
the plus/minus system is
inaccurate as well.
Leann Kicker, junior:
The plus/minus system
has hurt my GPA. It is an
unfortunate change in the
system, as it tends to cre-ate
more competition in
this already competitive
school. Students may be-come
less helpful to one
another, in pursuit of the
almighty grade.
Paul Otto, senior:
Yes, I think it's fair. It
has probably helped my
GPA. Grades are so com-petitive—
it's good be-cause
it tells you where
you are in comparison to
other students.
by Jay Stuart Russell
photos by Doug Berkey
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Page 10
Books list internship and summer job opportunities
by Jay Stuart Russell
How would you like to
work this summer at Mo-kuleia,
a church camp on
the north shore of Oahu,
or at Sperry Chalet, high
in the mountains of Glac-ier
National Park, or work
as an intern in a public
relations firm in New
York, or at a theatre corn-pany
in California?
For a small investment
you may find just what
you're looking for in two
books published by Wri-ter's
Digest Books: 1981
Internships and 1981 Sum-mer
Employment Direc-tory
of the United States.
In its 30th year of pub-lication,
the employment
directory offers job infor-mation
supplied directly
by the employer. The book
is divided in two parts,
the first of which offers
hints on how to apply for
a summer job, write a re-
1191131 AM■oonrktlolaajz.
sume, prepare for an in-terview
and tips on what
employers look for in ap-plicants.
The bulk of the book
lists names and addresses
of employers, along with
information on types of
positions, salaries, em-ployment
dates, how to
apply and whether the
employer offers room and
board. Some employers
even list fringe benefits,
such as transportation al-lowances,
bonuses, home
cooked meals and, in some
cases, college credit.
The listings are grouped
according to state and fur-ther
divided into job cate-gories,
including business
and industry; government;
resorts, ranches, restau-rants
and lodging; sum-mer
camps, summer thea-tres;
national parks; and
commercial attractions.
The summer camps cate-gory
is one of the largest.
The employment direc-tory's
big plus is that the
employers listed are ser-iously
and actively look-ing
for summer help, hav-ing
indicated a desire to
be included in the book.
Offering 15,000 on-the-job
training opportunities,
1981 Internships lists po-sitions
for those who seek
experience in a particular
career field. Besides the
advantage of obtaining
college credit, many of the
internships offer salaries
or stipended positions.
Others offer training and
experience as the salary,
by Cathy Schmeltzer
Some may think of a
sabbatical as nothing more
than a leisurely vacation,
but, according to Dean
George Brushaber, that is
a false assumption. The
purpose of a sabbatical is
to enable the faculty to
maintain the scholarship
necessary for effective
teaching. A sabbatical al-lows
teachers to undertake
work which they could not
otherwise accomplish
while teaching.
while a few charge a fee.
The internship is de-signed
as a full-time posi-tion
in .a career field, usu-ally
short-term, ranging
from a few weeks to a few
months. Some positions,
designed for the graduate,
may last a year.
The book lists informa-tion
similar to that given
in the summer employ-
This program keeps the
teachers growing, sharp,
and, most importantly,
able to maintain the high
level of educational excel-lence.
the policy at most
colleges (Bethel included)
allows a full-time teacher
who has served for six
years to apply for a sabba-tical
leave. The applicants
must submit a plan of
what they propose ro do
on their leave.
This plan is screened
very carefully. It must
show promise of benefit-ting
students directly at
the return of the teacher
and be approved by the
board of regents. The
usual sabbatical lasts six
months, but in rare cases
when a full year is needed
the year's leave is granted.
Teachers on sabbatical
continue to receive their
regular salary from Be-
1 hel, unless the sabbat-ment
directory, including
information about a com-pany,
eligibility require-ments,
salary, fringe ben-efits,
as well as informa-tion
on housing. The book
is not arranged by states,
as is the summer employ-ment
directory, but does
have a geographical cross-index.
see page 5
ical lasts a full year. In
that case they only receive
a salary for six months.
The number of teachers
that are allowed to take a
sabbatical is determined
by the amount of money
Bethel has for replace-ments
and the availability
of quality replacements.
Teachers on sabbatical
must also keep in contact
with Bethel by writing
periodically. On return
they are also required to
submit a written report of
their leave to the board of
regents. So, when teach-ers
take a sabbatical it
means they are not lying
on a beach somewhere in
the Caribbean, but on an
assignment perhaps at an-other
university, research-ing
in a lab, writing a
book, producing artwork,
composing music or serv-ing
abroad.
Profs work for sabbaticals
The women's soccer club, coached by Tom Persico, consists of forty women this year. They open
up their season after spring break against Coon Rapids High School.
Controversy enters senate
Bethany Baptist Church
Cleveland and Skillman Avenues, Roseville, Mn
Worship Service at 11:00 AM
Sunday School at 9:30 AM (Special College-age)
Evening Service at 6:00 PM Church Telephone
631-0211 Dr. Millard Erickson
Bethel Seminary Professor
Interim Pastor
BALDWIN PIANO RENTALS
631-9548
Page 1 1
Horn seeks balanced chapels
from page 3
tions have not been chosen
yet. The position of gen-eral
station manager
awaits the decision by
Dean Brushaber about
which department KABY
yoAr_
The El Salvador bill
failed in a roll-call vote,
7 -6. The bill would have
made public a declaration
of support from the Bethel
student association in fa-vor
of U.S. withdrawal
from the situation in El
Salvador. This information
would be noted in letters
to Congress and in the
Minneapolis Tribune.
The bill for allocating
$500 to the cheerleaders
was dropped to only
$200, but failed to pass
even at that lower amount.
The Clarion was allo-cated
$500 to make up
some of the loss incurred
when the budget was cut
over the summer. The
money will help cover
printing costs for the next
issues.
Senate is planning a
field day Ma y 9. The por-lion
of Old Snelling be-tween
Lindy's and Bethel
will be roped off and a
race will be held for peo-ple
who have converted
old beds into moving ve-hicles.
Two team events will
be next in the line-up of
events, a water race on
Lake Valentine and a re-lay
race of some type
across the football field.
The climax will be an
attempt to break a Gui-ness
world record. The
selection of the record has
not yet been made defi-nite.
One possibility is the
record for stuffing people
in a bus.
Senate approved a reso-lution
to begin leasing
and servicing the vending
machines around campus.
Senate estimates the min-imum
profit at $3500. It
hopes to begin operating
the vending machines
some time during April.
The bill passed to esta-blish
a karate club in lieu
of an intermediate PE
class in karate.
Two bills were brought
up and discussed under
new business. One bill
was a request for an allo-cation
of $200 to world
relief for the purpose of
alleviating the starvation
of the Ethiopian refugees
in Somalia.
A bill to end censorship
of artwork was also pro-posed.
The bill includes
the suggestion that a stu-dent
representative be
given voting power on the
administrative committee
that monitors academic
freedom, as well as on the
site commitee.
SENATE ELECTIONS
Senate election results
are in:
Mark Publow, President
Cheryl Thomas, Vice-resident
Publow and Thomas
swept the election with a
strong 56 per cent of the
vote.
by Debbie Anderson
Most students do not
contemplate the origin of
the chapel schedule. It just
happens, right? Not accord-ing
to David Horn, the
assistant to the campus
pastor and the person re-sponsible
for the chapel
schedule. If the schedule
does not evolve from no-thing,
where does it come
from?
Horn said that the cha-pel
schedule comes from a
variety of sources. The Cha-pel
and Spiritual Life com-mittee
made of students
and faculty help to gener-ate
ideas for chapel speak-ers
and programs. Some of
these ideas are then pur-sued
and secured for a
chapel slot sometime dur-ing
the year.
from page 1
dents. Another 30 homes
will be accepted on a type
of waiting list.
"Spruce Up a Senior's
Spring" is a good expe-rience
for both the senior
citizens and the students.
The senior citizens see
some work done they
could not do and have con-tact
with young people.
The Campus Ministries of-fice
and the Wilder Center
have received numerous
calls and cards where the
seniors expressed how
much the service the stu-dents
provided meant to
them in recent years.
They in turn encourage
the students. It is a nice
change of pace from the
normal Bethel routine,
Other sources for cha-pel
are outside people who
request to speak in chapel.
Often these speakers repre-sent
some special interest
group or missions. Horn
said that there is a Bethel
policy concerning speak-ers
who ask to speak at
Bethel. They can not pro-mote
their group or spe-cial
interest unless ap-proved
by Bethel.
Other chapels are re-quired
throughout the
year. For example, some
administration members
have received a slot on the
schedule. Sing and Shares
and SMP chapels are also
guaranteed chapel times.
Faculty sometimes ask
to speak in chapel. Some-times
students ask to
share in chapel. Horn said
so many students would
and the satisfaction that
comes from having help-ed
someone in need is
great. Participants are not
paid, but the senior citi-zens
provide all kinds of
goodies for munching
while working. Students
who drive are given mon-ey
to reimburse them for
gas used.
The Wilder Center has
appreciated Bethel's help
so much in this project
over the last two years
that this year they plan to
invite the newspaper and
television media to cover
the event.
All Bethel personnel —
students, faculty and staff
— can participate 9:30
a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sign-up
like to be in chapel that it
is impossible to use every-one,
although he tries to fit
people in where it is appro-priate.
Convocation speakers
are a final source for cha-pel
speakers. Convocation,
says Horn, "is not a wor-ship
time. Convocation is
separate from chapel."
Horn is not responsible
for convocation, rather a
committee of faculty mem-bers
decide on convocation
topics and speakers. Stu-dents
are welcome to par-ticipate
on this committee.
The most important as-pect
of the chapel is that
there is a balance, said
Horn. "If we have three
speakers in one week, we
try to balance it with a
student chapel or music or
something else," said Horn.
sheets will be posted on
the bulletin board outside
the Campus Ministries of-fice
(LR326). Students
may sign up in groups of
three our four vi individu-ally.
It is a good opportun-ity
for townhouse units or
dorm floors to form
groups to work together.
Students meet in the PE
lounge to receive maps
and instructions on Sat-urday
morning, and then
divide up to go to the
homes. In case of rain,
plan on April 25.
More information about
"Spruce Up a Senior's
Spring" is available from
Suzie Tjernlund or Curt
Hansen in Campus Minis-tries.
Workers put spring in seniors' day
Senior Deb Sension has been very active in both academics and athletics during her four years at
Bethel (photo by Doub Barkey).
Tennis line-up looks strong
Page 12 sports
Sension seeks high goals
by Ellie Abbott
Senior Deb Sension has
been an asset to Bethel,
whether in the biology de-partment,
the training
room or athletic events.
Sension grew up in the
small town of Chenoa, Ill.
While attending Chenoa
High School she was ac-tive
in both volleyball and
spring track for four years.
Sension graduated from
high school in the spring
of 1977. That fall she came
to Bethel to begin a busy,
but rewarding, four years.
When asked why she
chose Bethel, she said, "My
cousins lived in this area
so I had been in the cities
before coming to Bethel. I
liked the location that
Bethel was in and when I
visited Bethel, it seemed
like a friendly place."
Sension began her col-lege
career as a double
major, with concentra-tions
in physical education
and biology. At the end of
her sophomore year, Sen-sion
decided to transfer to
by Wendy Norberg
The women's track team
finished sixth out of eight-een
teams last Friday in
the biggest indoor meet of
the season, the Ole Invita-tional.
Eau Claire pulled
of a two-point win over
host team St. Olaf for the
team trophy.
The Bethel women made
a good showing while also
establishing a number of
school and personal re-
Florida State. After a great
deal of thought, prayer
and some convincing
words from her track
coach, Howie Kellogg, Sen-sion
decided to return. "I
knew I belonged at Bethel,
so I came back," she said.
Sension has been active
in women's athletics since
her freshman year. She
played basketball for four
years and was a forward
on the varsity squad for
three years.
Sension has also partic-ipated
on the track team
for three years, in which
she does the heptathlon.
The heptathlon consists of
seven events: the high
jump, long jump, shot put,
javelin, hurdles, 200-meter
dash and the 800-meter
run.
During her freshman
year Sension participated
on the volleyball and soft-ball
teams and was also
active in intramural vol-leyball.
Sension's career goal is
to be a certified athletic
trainer. This past fall she
cords. The 4x1 lap relay of
Lynn Severson, Jenny and
Danette Burgess and Sher-ri
Lindquist took second
place and set the school
record at 1:25.94.
Captain Severson also
took second place in the
300-yard dash, setting
Bethel's record at 38.09.
She later finished third in
the 60-yard dash, giving
Bethel a 7.28 record in that
event. In the two-mile run
spent many hours in the
training room and on the
football field in prepara-tion.
In order for her to
take the NATA (Nation-al
Athletic Trainer's Asso-ciation)
test, she has to
work with a certified train-er
for 1800 hours. Work-ing
as a trainer last fall
helped her toward this
goal. This fall she hopes to
enter graduate school at
South Dakota State, where
she will finish up her
hours.
In addition to athletic
training, participation in
athletics and a heavy aca-demic
load, Sension is
also a teacher's assistant
for the biology department.
She assists the anatomy/
physiology labs which
meet weekly, and is re-sponsible
to prepare for
each lab session.
Sension has found her
busy college life reward-ing
and looks forward to
pursuing her career goal
as a certified athletic
trainer.
Wendy Norberg lowered
the school record to
11:45.05.
Personal records were
set by Jenny Burgess in
the hurdles, Danette Bur-gess
in the 300, Mary
Shelander in the 400, Ellie
Abbott and Norberg in the
600, Joanne Ferril and Deb
Auty in the 800-meter run.
Olaf's fast track, the fast
competition and a lot of
good encouragement
by Becky Dye
The men's tennis team
has been hard at work
among Bethel's team mem-bers
contributed much to-ward
the improvements
made by so many of the
women.
This week the team has
a meet at Macalester on
Wednesday and will stop
for a meet in LaCrosse,
Wis., Friday, on the way to
Florida for spring break.
After break the outdoor
season begins with a meet
at Gustavus April 4.
practicing at Arden Hills
Tennis Club since interim,
in preparation of the 198,1
season.
Coach Mark Norlander
commented, "We have a
very strong top end of the
line-up this year.
"We took quite a jump
coming into the MIAC two
years ago. In the Tri-State
we held the championship
for 10 years, but our con-ferences
record last year
was 2-7.
"We have more balance
this year and should do
better."
Transfer sophomore
John Lilleberg joined the
team this year. He holds
the 1979 Minnesota state
men's singles title.
Kirk Smith, junior, is
the only returning player.
Seniors Randy Goen, Mike
Kim and Tim Steele will
also compete, along with
junior Mark Reasoner and
sophomores Jeff Nisson
and Mark Johnson.
The indoor season be-gan
March 6 for Bethel
against St. John's Bethel
lost, 9-0. Bethel was also
defeated March 15 by the
Gustavus junior varsity
team, 9-0.
The next match will be
held here at Bethel, March
31 against St. Mary's.
Coach Norlander com-mented,
"They are about
at our level. It should be a
close match and we could
come out on top."
Tracksters place sixth, set records
Men's mile relay lowers record
Tim Huisinga participated in the MIAC indoor track meet last Saturday.
by Ellie Abbott
The men's track team
performed well at the in-door
MIAC conference
meet hosted by St. Olaf
Saturday. The Royals
would have been fourth
out of eight teams if a
team score had been kept.
The Royals brought
home four first-place fin-ishes
and one new school
record in the mile relay.
Senior Paul Otto once
again dominated in the
sprinting events, taking
first in the 176-yard dash
(18.46) and the 300-yard
dash (32.70).
Phil Asay- leaped to a
victory in the triple jump
with a distance of 14.42
meters. Asay also placed
sixth in the long jump,
jumping 6.46 meters.
The mile relay of Tom
Plocker, Dave Jorgenson,
Tim Snyder and Otto,
placed third overall, but
broke the school indoor
record with a time of
3:28.83. St. John's won the
relay, breaking a new field
house record at 3:22.75.
In the 400-meter dash
Bethel's Plocker raced to a
victory with a time of
51.88. Mike Dirks follow-ed
closely behind (52.70)
with a third place finish.
In the 600-meter run Jor-genson
finished second
overall, timed at 1:14.78.
Don Hauser and Jay Van
Loon were fourth and fifth
with times of 1:16.44 and
1:16.61, respectively.
In the high jump Jason
Velgersdyk jumped 6'4"
for a third place. The win-ner
from St. Olaf jumped
6'6".
The men tricksters open
up their outdoor season
the weekend following
spring break.
Sports Events
Spring Break Trips
Men's and Women's
Track — Florida
Baseball — Texas
Soft ball — Arizona